Geography Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. The Arabic name for the NW part of Africa, generally including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and sometimes Libya
  2. 3. Being without moisture; extremely dry; parched
  3. 5. gulf An arm of the Arabian Sea, between SW Iran and Saudi Arabia
  4. 6. A person with no permanent home, who moves about from place to place
  5. 7. A nearly flat plain of sand, soil and pebble deposits from water flow
  6. 8. Human means for adding water to land for growing crops
  7. 9. crescent An agricultural region watered by the Nile, Jordan, Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  8. 10. A fertile area in a warm, desert-like environment
Down
  1. 1. A person who moves to another country, usually seeking permanent residence
  2. 4. Human made waterway for navigation and other uses such as irrigation
  3. 5. An oily, thick, flammable, usually dark-colored liquid that is a form of bitumen or a mixture of various hydrocarbons
  4. 7. The rapid loss of plant life and the loss of topsoil at desert boundaries and in semiarid regions