February Voc Test

riverbeds that remain dry except during the rainy season

• Wadis

• crude oil

• refinery

• Dead Sea

– a landlocked salt lake, so salty that almost nothing can live in the water, bordering Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan.

• MS River

• Gulf of Mexico

• Dead Sea

• Blue Lagoon

– petroleum that has not been processed

• gas

• crude oil

• mineral

• rock

a plant that converts crude oil into useful products

• mecca

• drip irrigation

• refinery

• mosque

– the practice of using small pipes that slowly drip water just above ground to conserve water used for crops.

• drip irrigation

• planting

• deforestation

• desertification

the removal of salt from ocean water.

• Refinery

• Mosque

• OPEC

• Desalinization

the holiest city of Islam – located in Saudi Arabia

• Jerusalem

• Israel

• Mecca

• Mosque

Muslim place of worship

• kurds

• OPEC

• mosque

• church

the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries – group of oil producing countries in the Middle East that help to control worldwide oil prices by controlling oil production and quotas.

• OPEP

• OPED

• OPEC

• OPCE

– for Christians, the sacred location of the final suffering and crucifixion of Jesus

• Jerusalem

• Israel

• kurds

• baptist