MENA VOCAB

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Across
  1. 1. Delta- extends a river's mouth into the body of water into which it is emptying.
  2. 8. animal herders who migrate into the desert during the rainy winter season and move back toward the cultivated land in the dry summer months.
  3. 9. Industry- an industry such as banking or insurance that provides a service but does not produce anything.
  4. 12. one who utters divinely inspired revelations
  5. 13. a system for transporting water from an aquifer or water well to the surface, through an underground aqueduct.
  6. 14. religious faith of Muslims
  7. 16. emoval of dissolved salts from seawater and in some cases from the brackish (slightly salty) waters of inland seas, highly mineralized groundwaters (e.g., geothermal brines), and municipal wastewaters.
  8. 18. Domestic Product- represents the total dollar value of all goods and services produced in a country in a given period
  9. 19. a body of porous rock or sediment saturated with groundwater.
  10. 20. of, subject to, or caused by an earthquake
  11. 21. the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms.
  12. 23. Peninsula- is bounded by the Red Sea on the west and southwest, the Gulf of Aden on the south-
  13. 24. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
  14. 25. Soil Deposit-is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed
  15. 26. system of writing used in the ancient Middle East.
Down
  1. 2. Diversity- Differences among groups of people and individuals based on ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, gender, exceptionalities, language, religion, sexual orientation, and geographical area.
  2. 3. Jewish people collectively.
  3. 4. Grains- any grass cultivated for the edible components of its grain
  4. 5. a Muslim place of worship, usually having one or more minarets and often decorated with elaborate tracery and texts from the Koran
  5. 6. Gulf - the body of water bordering Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Oman.
  6. 7. pyramidal stepped temple tower that is an architectural and religious structure characteristic of the major cities of Mesopotamia (now mainly in Iraq) from approximately 2200 until 500 bce.
  7. 10. an area made fertile by a source of freshwater in an otherwise dry and arid region
  8. 11. Crescent- the region where the first settled agricultural communities of the Middle East and Mediterranean basin
  9. 12. any chemical manufactured from crude oil and natural gas as distinct from fuels and other products
  10. 15. the bed or valley of a stream in regions of southwestern Asia and northern Africa that is usually dry except during the rainy season and that often forms an oasis
  11. 17. the extensive livestock production system that involves the tracking and use of grazing and water across a given landscape
  12. 22. Central to the project of Christian scholarship and, by extension, Christian geography, is the biblically based confession that there is no part of the world