SS7 Unit 4 Middle East vocab

a spring of fresh water found in a desert

• desalination

• oasis

• irrigation

• fossil water

a canal in Egypt, built in 1869, that connects the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea

• Panama Canal

• Red Sea

• Strait of Hormuz

• Suez Canal

a person who moves from place to place

• immigrant

• nomad

• alien

• native

growing small amounts of crops that are enough for a family’s survival

• fossil water

• irrigation

• subsistence agricultures

• crop rotation

watering crops so they will continue to grow when there is insufficient rainfall

• subsistence agriculture

• oasis

• fossil water

• irrigation

a lake where water is stored

• Suez Canal

• fossil water

• resevoir

• irrigation

a layer of underground rock where water runoff from rains and streams is trapped

• aquifer

• fossil water

• irrigation

• reservoir

water that has been underground for centuries

• aquifer

• fossil water

• reservoir

• oasis

the process of removing salt and other chemicals from seawater

• irrigation

• oasis

• desalination

• reservoir

a water-saving method of irrigation in which computers measure how much water each plant receives

• oasis

• desalination

• drip irrigation

• reservoir