Across
- 2. a fertile or green area in an arid region
- 4. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
- 5. loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings
- 7. places where Mesopotamian gods were worshiped
- 9. an English-language acronym referring to the Middle East and North Africa
- 10. measures the monetary value of final goods and services
- 14. individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and to serve as models of ideal human behaviour
- 15. chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining
- 18. an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
- 19. Christianity and Islam, plus Judaism and Druze faith
- 22. a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf
- 25. a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below
- 26. the world's oldest monotheistic religion
- 27. a Muslim place of worship
- 28. the bed or valley of a stream in regions of southwestern Asia and northern Africa that is usually dry except during the rainy season and that often forms an oasis
- 29. the seeds that come from grasses such as wheat, millet, rice, barley, oats, rye, triticale, sorghum, and maize
- 30. A river delta is a landform created by deposition of sediment that is carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water
Down
- 1. Arabic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian and Turkish
- 3. Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara
- 6. a mountain range in northern Africa between the Mediterranean and the Sahara Deser
- 8. a business that does work for a customer, and occasionally provides goods, but is not involved in manufacturing
- 11. of, subject to, or caused by an earthquake
- 12. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets
- 13. he process of removing salt
- 14. a shallow arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia
- 16. the boomerang shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations
- 17. the action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling
- 20. an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and universal religion teaching that Muhammad is a messenger of God
- 21. refers to the presence of people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds or identities
- 22. a body of rock and/or sediment that holds groundwater
- 23. a nomadic Arab of the desert
- 24. a mode of subsistence that involves raising domestic animals in grassland environments using herd and household mobility