Southwest Asia: Landforms
Riverbeds that remain dry except during rainy seasons
What are wadis?
The removal of salt from ocean water
What is desalination?
When winds evaporate the moisture in the soil, chemical salts remain
What is a salt-flat?
North Africa shares this language, along with the Islamic religion and culture with Southwest Asia
What is Arabic?
North African households tend to be centered around _________?
What are the males?
An area in the desert where vegetation is found because water is available
What is an oasis?
System that uses small pipes that slowly drip water just above the ground to conserve water used for crops.
What is drip irrigation?
True or False: Much of the Anatolian Peninsula is covered in plains
What is False?
North Africa began with an economy based on this
What is agriculture?
These are two of Southwest Asia’s most valuable resources
What is oil and water?
A landlocked salt lake
What is the Dead Sea?
Water pumped from underground aquifers
What is fossil water?
True or False: The heart of Iran is a plateau surrounded by mountains
What is True?
North Africa lies close to Southwest Asia and across the _________________ from Europe
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This amount of the world's oil reserves are found in Southwest Asia
What is 1/2?
A river that flows into the Dead Sea and provides the most precious resource, water.
What is the Jordan River?
Petroleum that has not been pumped
What is crude oil?
Southwest Asia is almost completely surrounded by this
What is water?
The frequency of the Nile River floods
What is once every year?
A Phoenician queen founded this city in 814 B.C.
What is Carthage?
A hilly plateau overlooking the Jordan River and the Sea of Galilee
What are the Golden Heights?
Conversion of crude oil into useful products
What is refinery?
This has been described as the world's largest spa
What is the Dead Sea?
The three countries that the Tigris and Euphrates river flow through
What are Syria, Iraq, and Turkey?
The most famous desert in Southwest Asia and is also known as the Empty Quarter
What is Rub- al- Khali?