Across
- 2. The Arabic name for the NW part of Africa, generally including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and sometimes Libya.
- 3. Being without moisture, extremely dry, parched
- 5. gulf An arm of the Arabian Sea, between SW Iran and Saudi Arabia
- 6. A person with no permanent home, who moves from place to place
- 7. A nearly flat plain of sand, soil and pebble deposits from water flow, between diverging branches as they fork at the mouth of a river, often in a triangular shape
- 8. Human means for adding water to land for growing crops
- 9. crescent An agricultural region watered by the Nile, Jordan, Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- 10. A fertile area in a warm, desert-like environment.
Down
- 1. A person who moves to another country, usually seeking permanent residence.
- 4. Human made waterway for navigation and other uses such as irrigation
- 5. An oily, thick, flammable, usually dark-colored liquid that is a form of bitumen or a mixture of various hydrocarbons
- 7. The rapid loss of plant life and the loss of topsoil at desert boundaries and in semiarid regions