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

– petroleum that has not been processed

a plant that converts crude oil into useful products

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

the removal of salt from ocean water.

the holiest city of Islam – located in Saudi Arabia

Muslim place of worship

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.

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

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

– an ethnic group in Southwestern Asia

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

- a group of Islamic terrorists, part of the Al Qaeda network, hijacked four commercial airliners deliberately crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

a Muslim fundamentalist group in Afghanistan that protected Al Qaeda.

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

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

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

– a territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula.