MENA crossword

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Across
  1. 2. the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.
  2. 5. the world's oldest monotheistic religion
  3. 8. an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
  4. 13. loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain
  5. 14. a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below.
  6. 16. a landform created by deposition of sediment that is carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth
  7. 18. Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia.
  8. 21. a chemical obtained from petroleum and natural gas.
  9. 22. It is the world's second-largest religion with more than two billion followers
  10. 25. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
  11. 27. is a place of worship for Muslims.
  12. 28. the modern Persian language, a member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family written in Arabic script.
  13. 29. Founded on 14 September 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members, it has since 1965 been headquartered in Vienna, Austria
Down
  1. 1. the boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations.
  2. 3. the process of removing salts or other minerals and contaminants from seawater, brackish water, and wastewater effluent
  3. 4. the presence of people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds or identities.
  4. 6. a mode of subsistence that involves raising domestic animals in grassland environments using herd and household mobility.
  5. 7. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
  6. 9. places where Mesopotamian gods were worshipped.
  7. 10. a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God.
  8. 11. a fertile spot in a desert, where water is found.
  9. 12. extend some 2,500km across northwestern Africa, spanning Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, separating the Atlantic and Mediterranean coastline from the Sahara Desert.
  10. 15. Industry a business that does work for a customer, and occasionally provides goods, but is not involved in manufacturing.
  11. 17. a mediterranean sea in Western Asia.
  12. 19. a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.
  13. 20. the action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling.
  14. 23. a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season.
  15. 24. the seeds that come from grasses such as wheat, millet, rice, barley, oats, rye, triticale, sorghum, and maize.
  16. 26. relating to earthquakes or other vibrations of the earth and its crust.