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