PBL Word Chart

2. - Land almost or entirely surrounded by land; having no coastline or seaport.
4. - Designed to show governmental boundaries of countries, states, and counties.
5. - River in northern Israel, flowing south through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. Note: In the Bible, the Jordan was the scene of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist.
7. - Desalination is a process that extracts mineral components from saline water.
9. - A water supply system is a system for the collection, transmission, treatment, storage and distribution of water from source to consumers, for example, homes, commercial establishments, industry, irrigation facilities and public agencies for water—related activities.
12. - A viscous liquid derived from petroleum, especially for use as a fuel or lubricant.
15. - The eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates.
17. - A mediterranean sea in Western Asia.
18. - A seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.

1. - Often include much of the same data found on a political map.
3. - Any watering system that delivers a slow moving supply of water at a gradual rate directly to the soil.
6. - Peninsula in southwest Asia, bordered on the north by Jordan and Iraq, on the east by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, on the south by the Gulf of Aden, and on the west by the Red Sea.
7. - A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.
8. - Is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
10. - The longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.
11. - Land having many mountains.
13. - A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.
14. - Salt lake on the border between Israel and Jordan.
16. - Flammable gas, consisting largely of methane and other hydrocarbons, occurring naturally underground and used as fuel.