Mena Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a chemical obtained from petroleum and natural gas.
  2. 4. a business that does work for a customer, and occasionally provides goods, but is not involved in manufacturing.
  3. 5. the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.
  4. 10. the modern Persian language, a member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family written in Arabic script.
  5. 12. shallow marginal sea of the Indian Ocean that lies between the Arabian Peninsula and southwestern Iran
  6. 13. a nomadic Arab of the desert.
  7. 16. the process of removing salt from seawater.
  8. 17. a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season.
  9. 18. the monotheistic religion of the Jewish people.
  10. 19. a group of 13 of the world's major oil-exporting nations
  11. 23. the religion of the Muslims
  12. 24. a mountain range in northern Africa between the Mediterranean and the Sahara Desert.
  13. 28. the action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling.
  14. 29. the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices.
Down
  1. 1. the region where the first settled agricultural communities of the Middle East and Mediterranean basin
  2. 3. the presence of people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds or identities.
  3. 6. a fertile spot in a desert, where water is found.
  4. 7. a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God.
  5. 8. a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources.
  6. 9. a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
  7. 11. wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water, such as an ocean, lake, or another river
  8. 14. 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.
  9. 15. a Muslim place of worship.
  10. 20. the quality or style characteristic of pastoral writing
  11. 21. A grass yielding grain for food
  12. 22. relating to earthquakes or other vibrations of the earth and its crust.
  13. 25. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
  14. 26. a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below.
  15. 27. deposit, Material deposited by rivers. It consists of silt, sand, clay, and gravel, as well as much organic matter.