Vocabulary 1
This means "land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
This is the largest desert.
What is the Sahara?
Most of the region has this type of summer.
What is hot?
Travelers across the dry plateaus stopped at these.
What are oases?
This is the redirection of water to crops using channels and ditches.
What is irrigation?
An area that is dry with no rain is this.
What is arid?
This is the longest river.
What is the Nile?
Humid climate areas are centered around this feature.
What is the Mediterranean?
The Middle East is home to many of the world's oldest of these.
What are cities?
Something that can't reproduce quick enough to keep up with need is this
What is nonrenewable?
This process is the slow change from fertile to less productive land.
What is desertification?
The Middle East is the meeting place of these three continents.
What are Asia, Africa, and Europe?
Seasonal streams that pop up after rain or floods are called this.
What are wadis?
Qanats are used in this city today.
What is Tehran, Iran?
This raw material forms in deposits due to pressure under the earth.
What is petroleum?
This is a fracture in the Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
The floodplains of this area were the ideal location for early agriculture.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Scientists think a huge, lengthy flood about 7,500 years ago created this feature.
What is the Black Sea?
The Anatolian and Iranian Plateaus were formed by this.
This is fine particles of soil in river water.
What is silt?
This is a flat area of land next to a stream or river that floods.
What is an alluvial plain?
This is where most people have settled along the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the coastline?
When rain and snow form only on the moist side of a mountain range, this is called...
What is a rainshadow?
The world is dependent on the Arabian Peninsula because of this.
What is petroleum?
This is an underground tunnel used to carry mountain waters to dry plains.
What is a qanat?