SW Asia Geography, Env. Issues, & WPLT Review

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Across
  1. 2. What is the major export of Southwest Asian countries?
  2. 9. A situation in which unlimited wants exceed the limited resources available to fulfill those wants
  3. 10. (desert nomads) have called the desert home for thousands of years
  4. 12. A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater. Contains fresh water.
  5. 14. Most people have left the desert behind and have moved where to find work.
  6. 16. What river does Israel, Syria, and Jordan share?
  7. 18. What resource is scarce in the Middle East?
  8. 20. The most common landform in the middle east is what?
  9. 21. narrow body of water that connects the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea
  10. 22. an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation
Down
  1. 1. Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank were all what country before 1948?
  2. 3. Which country has fought military battles over water rights to the Jordan River?
  3. 4. Which small landform created for Palestinians in Israel borders Jordan?
  4. 5. Which small landform created for Palestinians in Israel borders the Medditerranean Sea?
  5. 6. The climate of Southwest Asia has led much of the region to experience a scarcity of what?
  6. 7. What body of water separates Saudi Arabia and Iran?
  7. 8. Electricity (power/energy) produced from the energy of running water
  8. 11. a long period without rain
  9. 13. The process of removing salt from seawater to make the water usable for people and farms
  10. 15. The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops
  11. 17. Structure that reduces the water available to countries down stream
  12. 19. Makes trade possible by providing a trade route connecting the Meditteranean Sea and the Red Sea