Social Studies February Vocabulary Quizizz

riverbeds that remain dry except during the rainy season

• wadis

• West Bank

• Dead Sea

• drip irrigation

a territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Penninsula

• The West Bank

• Mesopotamia

• The Gaza Strip

• Mecca

a strip of land on the west side of the Jordan River and controlled by Jordan that is now controlled by Israel

• Israel

• The Dead Sea

• The Gaza Strip

• The West Bank

the Arabs and their descendants who lived or still live in the area formerly called Palestine and now called Israel

• Wadis

• Taliban

• Palestinians

• Kurds

in 1990 - Iraq invaded Kuwait - leading 32 countries to join Kuwait in the battle to drive Iraqis out of Kuwait

• Mosque

• Persian Gulf War

• OPEC

• PLO

a Muslim fundamentalist group in Afghanistan that protected Al Qaeda

• Taliban

• Wadis

• Kurds

• Palestinians

when a group of Islamic terrorists, part of the Al Qaeda network, hijacked four commercial airliners deliberately crashedthem into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

• Persian Gulf War - 1990

• September 11, 2001

• Israel - established on May 14, 1948

• the Gaza Strip

the land between rivers - is land located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Southwest Asia

• Mecca

• Jerusalem

• Israel

• Mesopotamia

an ethnic group in Southwestern Asia

• Taliban

• Palestinians

• Kurds

• wadis

Organization formed by Palestinian Arabs to take previously owned Arab land in Israel away from Jewish nation

• Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

• Palestinians

• OPEC

• Mesopotamia