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APS Social Studies
NA,SW Asia, C Asia
Question | Answer |
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alluvial soil | rich soil made up of sand and mud deposited by moving water |
Wadis | streambeds that remain dry until a heavy rain |
phosphate | a chemical used in fertilizers |
The Sahara desert | largest desert in the world about 3.5 million square miles |
ergs | sandy dune covered area |
Regs | stony plains covered with rocky gravel |
hamada | flat sandstone plateau |
Rub' al Khali | known as the empty quarter covers almost the entire southern quarter of peninsula |
Garagum | desert in central asia with black sand |
oasis | a place in the desert where underground water surfaces |
pastoralism | raising and grazing of livestock |
bedouins | people of this region's steppe |
cereals | food grains such as barley. oats |
Kum | sandy deserts |
Atlas Mountains | Africa's longest mountains that reach across Morocca and Algeria |
Hejaz | mountain range in southwest Asia |
ASir | mountain range on western coast of Arabian peninsula, taller than the Hejaz |
Qizilqum | red sand desert in Uzbekistan |
Morocco | muslim country at the northwest corner of Africa |
Arabian Peninsula | the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden seperate the Arabian peninsula from Africa |
Sinai Peninsula | The Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba flank this small peninsula |
Anatolia | lies to the north and points west to the Aegean Sea |
The Dead Sea | a land locked body of salt water, sits at the mouth of the Jordan River.It is a source of chemical products such as potash |
The Caspian Sea | largest inland body of water on earth. Evaporation and decreased flow from feeder rivers have resulted in lower water levels |
Aral Sea | in the heart of Central Asia is now looking more like a desert than a sea. It began to dry up when the former Soviet Union diverted water for irrigation |
The Nile River | The world's longest river |
The Nile Delta | has very fertile land giving birth to one of the world's earliest civilizations. Today more than 90 percent of Egypt's people live in this area. |
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers | flow mainly through Iraq, are also important to the region |
The Aswan High Dam | controls the Nile's flow reducing both flooding and deposits of alluvial soil |
Mesopotamia | "Land between two rivers" is a very fertile farming valley |
The Pontic Mountains and the Taurus Mountains | rise from the Turkish landscape |
Anatolian plateau | lies between the Pontic mountains and Taurus mountains. The plateau stands 2,000 to 5,000 feet above sea level |
Mount Ararat | lies east of the Pontic range and is 17,000feet high. It overlooks the Turkish and Iranain border |
The Zagros Mountains and Taurus mountains | were built by tectonic movement. |
oil and natural gas | 70 percent of the world's known oil reserves lie benesath this region |
sulfate | a mineral used in paperboard, glass, and detergents found in Turkmenistan which has the world's largest deposits |