Southwest Asia

4. A growing problem in the Middle East as countries work to modernize their systems of agriculture.
5. One of the most valuable natural resources to the economy in the Middle East.
6. underground water supply
7. The process of removing salt and other chemicals from seawater.
9. Desert nomads: people living in and around deserts. Surviving as sheep and cattle herders, who make a living by trading animals.
10. having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation.
11. The most precious, yet least abundant natural resource in the Middle East. A shortage of this resource is a major cause of conflict.
12. a barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, the resulting reservoir being used in the generation of electricity or as a water supply.
13. to build or fill up again
15. is farming for a profit,
17. Water that has remained in an aquifer for a long timespan, usually thousands or millions of years.
19. The supply of water to land or crops.
20. The Middle East is on which continent?

1. A major contributor to water pollution in the middle east
2. water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
3. is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families.
8. A type power produced from the energy of running water
14. the state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage.
16. a member of a people having no permanent home, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
18. An expensive type of irrigation in which computers measure out how much water each plant will receive.