SW Asia Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 7. removal of salt from ocean water
  2. 9. landlocked salt lake
  3. 11. dry riverbed
  4. 12. holiest city of Islam
  5. 13. make up 83% of all Muslims
  6. 15. Palestinian Liberation Organization
  7. 17. Organ. of Petroleum exporting countries
  8. 18. petroleum that has not been processed
Down
  1. 1. founder of Islam
  2. 2. Islamic place of worship
  3. 3. crude oil is converted into products here
  4. 4. fundamentalist Muslim political group
  5. 5. vast desert on the Arabian Peninsula
  6. 6. Jewish holy site and part of the old temple
  7. 8. area in the desert where vegetation grows
  8. 10. religious leaders control the government
  9. 14. hilly plateau overlooking the Jordan River
  10. 16. goal is to have a jewish state in Palestine