Geo - Unit 07 Vocabulary Quiz

Monotheism

• belief in one God

• person believed to be a messenger for God

• grazing so heavily that the vegetation is damaged and the ground erodes

• process in which arable land becomes desert

• a valley formed by the separation of tectonic plates

Prophet

• belief in one God

• person believed to be a messenger for God

• grazing so heavily that the vegetation is damaged and the ground erodes

• process in which arable land becomes desert

• a valley formed by the separation of tectonic plates

Overgrazing

• belief in one God

• person believed to be a messenger for God

• grazing so heavily that the vegetation is damaged and the ground erodes

• process in which arable land becomes desert

• a valley formed by the separation of tectonic plates

Desertification

• belief in one God

• person believed to be a messenger for God

• grazing so heavily that the vegetation is damaged and the ground erodes

• process in which arable land becomes desert

• a valley formed by the separation of tectonic plates

Rift Valley

• belief in one God

• person believed to be a messenger for God

• grazing so heavily that the vegetation is damaged and the ground erodes

• process in which arable land becomes desert

• a valley formed by the separation of tectonic plates

Pastoralism

• the raising of animals for food and other products

• a system of writing using wedge-shaped symbols that were pressed into clay tablets

• a ban on trade

• a large temple built by the Sumerians

• a wetland typically covered with grasses

Cuneiform

• the raising of animals for food and other products

• a system of writing using wedge-shaped symbols that were pressed into clay tablets

• a ban on trade

• a large temple built by the Sumerians

• a wetland typically covered with grasses

Embargo

• the raising of animals for food and other products

• a system of writing using wedge-shaped symbols that were pressed into clay tablets

• a ban on trade

• a large temple built by the Sumerians

• a wetland typically covered with grasses

Ziggurat

• the raising of animals for food and other products

• a system of writing using wedge-shaped symbols that were pressed into clay tablets

• a ban on trade

• a large temple built by the Sumerians

• a wetland typically covered with grasses

Marsh

• the raising of animals for food and other products

• a system of writing using wedge-shaped symbols that were pressed into clay tablets

• a ban on trade

• a large temple built by the Sumerians

• a wetland typically covered with grasses