MENA Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. Crescent the boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations.
  2. 9. Delta wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water.
  3. 11. the action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling.
  4. 12. a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below.
  5. 13. Soil Deposit Material deposited by rivers.
  6. 14. a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God.
  7. 15. the world's oldest monotheistic religion.
  8. 19. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organization of 13 countries.
  9. 21. places where Mesopotamian gods were worshiped.
  10. 23. a nomadic Arab of the desert.
  11. 25. that part of agriculture that deals with animal livestock such as goats, chickens, yaks, camels, sheep, and bovine, etc.
  12. 27. Domestic Produce the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.
  13. 29. Peninsula Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the east, Oman on the southeast, Yemen on the south Page 3 and Saudi Arabia at the center.
Down
  1. 1. chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining.
  2. 2. the process of removing salts or other minerals and contaminants from seawater, brackish water, and wastewater effluent
  3. 3. the modern Persian language, a member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family written in Arabic script.
  4. 4. Industry include everything else: banking, communications, wholesale and retail trade, all professional services such as engineering, computer software development, and medicine, nonprofit economic activity, all consumer services, and all government services, including defense and administration of justice.
  5. 6. Diversity the presence of people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds or identities.
  6. 7. Gulf Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
  7. 8. an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
  8. 10. an Abrahamic monotheistic religion whose central text, the Quran, is considered by followers, known as Muslims, to be the word of God.
  9. 16. caused by an earthquake
  10. 17. also called masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.
  11. 18. 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.
  12. 20. Grains the seeds that come from grasses such as wheat, millet, rice, barley, oats, rye, triticale, sorghum, and maize (corn).
  13. 22. Mountains not a continuous chain of mountains but a series of ranges separated by wide areas of land, which are called plateaus.
  14. 24. a place in a desert where water comes up to the surface from deep underground.
  15. 26. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
  16. 28. a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season.