SW Asia Geography Vocab

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What is a Bedouin?

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A nomadic herder of Arabic descent

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What does desalination refer to?

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The removal of salt, especially from sea water

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What is an ethnic group?

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A group of people with shared, ancestral, cultural, lingual, and social characteristics.

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What is an oasis?

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A fertile spot where water is found in a desert.

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What is groundwater?

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The water beneath Earth’s surface that supplies wells and springs

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What is the meaning of the word fertile (in Geography)?

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able to support the healthy growth of many things, especially plants

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What is genocide?

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the deliberate destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

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What is latitude?

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a measure of a location’s distance north or south of the equator

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What is longitude?

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a measure of a location’s distance east or west of the prime meridian

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What is a religious group?

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a group of people with the same set of religious beliefs and practices, regardless of ancestral, cultural, lingual, and social characteristics