Middle East Vocab Flashcard

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Nile River: _____________ river in the world.

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longest

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Nile River: floods annually, enabling crop irrigation. Flows ____________ through Africa.

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North

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Current methods of ___________ require enormous energy. For example, _______________ accounts for 25-30% of energy used in Saudi Arabia.

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Desalination

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Desalination removes ___________ from seawater for drinking and irrigation.

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salt

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Process where arable land turns to desert, often due to overgrazing.

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Desertification

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Away from the Nile, in deserts, infrequent but intense rainstorms can create ______________, or dry streambeds until heavy rain.

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Wadis

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Beduin: member of the desert peoples of North Africa and Southwest Asia.

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Nomadic

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The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, located on the __________ continent.

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African

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In far eastern Turkey, two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, flow through a region known as _______________, meaning land between the rivers.

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Mesopotamia

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The Tigris and Euphrates rivers form a natural boundary around Mesopotamia, one of the first _____________. A ________________ is a center from which cultures develop and spread.

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Culture Hearth(s)