Middle East Crossword

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  1. 5. relating to earthquakes or other vibrations of the earth and its crust.
  2. 7. a permanent intergovernmental Organization
  3. 12. a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season.
  4. 13. the process of removing salts or other minerals from seawater
  5. 15. any grass cultivated for the edible components of its grain, composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.
  6. 17. the boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations.
  7. 19. a nomadic Arab of the desert.
  8. 21. a mode of subsistence that involves raising domestic animals in grassland environments using herd and household mobility.
  9. 22. Material deposited by rivers. It consists of silt, sand, clay, and gravel, as well as much organic matter.
  10. 23. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
  11. 26. refers to a grouping of countries situated in and around the Middle East and North Africa.
  12. 27. extend some 2,500km across northwestern Africa, spanning Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, separating the Atlantic and Mediterranean coastline from the Sahara Desert.
  13. 28. a business that does work for a customer, and occasionally provides goods, but is not involved in manufacturing.
  14. 30. The UN subregion of North Africa consists of 7 countries at the northernmost part of the continent - Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara.
  15. 31. the presence of people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds or identities.
  16. 33. used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit
  17. 34. The primary living languages of the Middle East today are Arabic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian and Turkish.
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  1. 1. an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest religion, with about 2.5 billion followers.
  2. 2. a fertile spot in a desert, where water is found.
  3. 3. the birthplace of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
  4. 4. places where Mesopotamian gods were worshiped. They were giant stepped pyramids that towered above the landscape of ancient Mesopotamia.
  5. 6. the process of removing salts or other minerals and contaminants from seawater and wastewater, and it is a common solution to obtain fresh water.
  6. 8. a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God.
  7. 9. a landform created by deposition of sediment that is carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.
  8. 10. used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly on clay tablets.
  9. 11. a battlefield of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers.
  10. 14. the action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling.
  11. 16. simply Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.
  12. 18. the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.
  13. 20. monotheistic and worship one, all-knowing God, who in Arabic is known as Allah.
  14. 24. are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining.
  15. 25. a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below.
  16. 29. a Muslim place of worship.
  17. 32. the world's oldest monotheistic religion, dating back nearly 4,000 years.