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An underground layer of rock and sand that contains water

What is aquifer(Groundwater)?

100
River shared by Syria, Israel, and Jordan.
What is the Jordan River?
100
Where most of the larger cities in Southwest Asia are located.
What is rivers?
100
Water below the surface that supplies wells and springs.
What is ground water?
200
The process of removing salt and other chemicals from seawater.
What is desalination?
200
Led to the build-up of salt levels in the soil.
What is chemical fertilizers?
200
This describes the climate of Southwest Asia.
What is hot and dry?
200
Water that has been underground for centuries.
What is fossil water?
300
Electricity produced from the energy of running water.
What is hydroelectric power?
300
This country has a "water advantage" because the Tigris and Euphrates begin there.
What is Turkey?
300
Much of the interior of Southwest Asia is this type of landform.
What is desert?
300
A desert in southern Saudi Arabia.
What is Empty Quarter?
400

land that is suitable to be able to grow crops specially near water sources 

What is fertileland ?

400
Israel created these in order to bring water from the Sea of Galilee into the country.
What is pipelines?
400
This is how most people living in the desert have made their living.
What is trading handmade goods?
400

These people move around in the desert and  who live in tent camps and survived as sheep and camel herders.

What is nomads?

500
Providing water for crops.
What is irrigation?
500
Saudi Arabia has the world's largest one. It helps to change brackish water into drinking water.
What is a desalination plant?
500
Many people living along the rivers of SW Asia have built canals, qanats, and water wheels to use the water for this.
What is irrigation?
500

Water found in desert areas.

What is an oasis?