Observe/Infer
Water
Population Density
Religions and Ethnic Groups
Geography
Vocabulary
100

The boy is wearing a blue shirt.

What is an observation?

100

The state of being in short supply.

What is scarcity?

100

People tend to live in these areas in Southwest Asia.

What is next to freshwater?

100

A group of individuals who share a common cultural background or descent.

What is an ethnic group?

100
The West Bank, Israel, and Jordan all border this body of water. 

What is the Jordan River?

100

Areas of underground moisture.

What is aquifers?

200

The kids are heading home after school.

What is infer?

200

The Jordan, Euphrates, and Tigris River.

What are the 3 major rivers is SW Asia that we've studied?

200

The weather conditions that exist in an area over a long period of time.

What is climate?

200

A group of people who follow a common set of ethics and have shared spiritual beliefs.

What is a religious group?

200

The country that touches both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.

What is Saudi Arabia?

200

manmade lake

What is a reservoir?

300

The girls are collecting water from the river to bring home.

What is an inference?

300

Factories that remove the salt from saltwater so it can be used as freshwater.

What is desalination?

300

The one resource that affects population density in the Middle East (Southwest Asia).

What is water?

300

This group originated in the Arabian Peninsula and today, has 450 million members worldwide and are mostly Sunni Muslims.

Who are the Arabs?

300

The country east of Iran.

What is Afghanistan?

300

Areas where water is scarce.

What is the water crisis?

400

To deduce or conclude information from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.

What is infer?

400

Fertizilers, pesticides, toxic waste, and sewage can seep into fresh water sources.

What is pollutants?

400

Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.  It is limited.

What are natural resources?

400

This group is mostly in eastern and southeastern Turkey, western Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria and has 30-32 million members. They are mostly Sunni Muslims.

Who are the Kurds?

400

This area/body of water bordered by Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.

What is the Persian Gulf?

400

Add water to soil when it's needed.

What is drip irrigation?

500

To notice or perceive something and register it as being significant.

What is an observation?

500

Water that's clean enough to drink.

What is potable?

500

A measurement of population per unit area or the amount of people living in a particular place.

What is population density?

500

Sixty percent of this group is located in Iran and they are mostly Shiite Muslims.

Who are the Persians?

500

The country you must travel through to reach the Persian Gulf from Iraq.

What is Kuwait?

500

It is used to get water to dry areas that are not close to the rivers.

What is irrigation?