Unit 6 Southwest Asia/North Africa-Vocabulary

Belief in one god

• monotheism

• scarcity

Coal, oil, natural gas, and other fuels that are ancient remains of plants and animals.

• Fossil fuels

• non-renewable resource

Condition where there is not enough of a product to meet the demand for the product

• non-renewable resource

• scarcity

Process of removing salt from seawater to make fresh water

• desalinization

• transportation corridor

A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed

• non-renewable resource

• renewable resource

A resource of economic value that cannot be readily replaced by natural means on a level equal to its consumption

• Fossil fuels

• non-renewable resource

A geographic area (including both cultural and natural resources), that is associated with a historic event, activity or person, or exhibiting any other cultural or aesthetic values

• cultural landscape

• transportation corridor

The fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.

• ethnicity

• cultural landscape

A route on which people and goods move from one place to another

• cultural landscape

• transportation corridor

An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum.

• OPEC

• monotheism