Geography Crossword Puzzle 08

4. What type of desert does the Arabian Peninsula have the largest of?
5. How many main landforms does the Arabian Peninsula have?
8. Water was not controlled and _________ was a major problem.
10. Early settlements in Mesopotamia were located near ______.
13. Unique homes, make moving with the herds possible, called ____ are movable round houses made of wool felt mats hung over a wood frame.
14. The rivers create a narrow,______area.
15. The largest country of the Arabian Peninsula.
17. People built _____ to protect houses from flooding and to move water to their fields.
19. What word means"land between the rivers?"
20. Saudi Arabia is heavily influenced by this religion.

1. Beginning in the 500s BC, the ________ ruled the region around present-day Iran.
2. The rivers helped in water transportation of ______.
3. India, China, Egypt, and people living along the eastern Mediterranean used Mesopotamia as crossroads for _____.
6. Nearly all Saudis speak this language.
7. _______are the largest group and make up 75 to 80 percent of Iraq’s population.
9. The Tigris and Euphrates are known as this type of river.
11. The smaller major ethnic group in Iraq.
12. Most people in Central Asia today belong to one of several ethnic groups that are part of a larger ethnic group called _____.
16. The early history of the country we now call ____ includes the Persian Empire and a series of Muslim empires.
18. Many herders live as ______, people who move often from place to place.