Unit 7 | Southwest Asia & North Africa | Vocab | Vol. I

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Across
  1. 1. raw _________ used to ________ ______
  2. 5. River that flows across a low, flat plain in Iraq and joins the Euphrates River
  3. 7. the _______ hot ______ in the world, covering most of North ______
  4. 8. known as the largest peninsula in the world, it sits between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
  5. 9. a ________ in Earth’s ______
  6. 11. from the Greek, meaning ' land between ______ rivers
  7. 12. Very ___, having almost no ________
  8. 14. a _______ place with _______ in a dry _______
  9. 15. the area around the ______ and _________ river
Down
  1. 2. one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
  2. 3. A _________ in Earth’s crust that runs ______ and _______, just south of the _______ Sea
  3. 4. The longest ______ in the world; flows through ______ and [parts of] ________ for 4,000 miles
  4. 6. the process of redirecting _____ to ______ through channels and __________
  5. 10. a ______-made underground ____ on the _______ Plateau, used for carrying water from the mountains
  6. 13. fine ________ of soil deposited along ____________