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