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| rich soil made up of sand and mud deposited by moving water. The Aswan High Dam on the Nile river reduces deposits of this. |
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| streambeds that remain dry until heavy rains |
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| dune covered deserts in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan |
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| a chemical used in fertilizer. Morroco produces. |
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| a place in the desert where underground water surfaces |
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| the raising and grazing of livestock - a way of life for bedouins in the steppe |
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| food grains such as barley, oats and wheat that can be raised without irrigation in Georgia |
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| 4 climate regions in North Africa , central asia and southwest asia |
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| desert, steppe, Mediterranean, and highlands |
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| What physical features separate the Arabian Peninsula from the African continent? |
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| What desert covers most of Turkmenistan? about half of Uzbekistan? |
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| Garagum (Kara Kum). Quizilkum |
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| About how much of North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia experience desert climate? |
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| In what part of the region does tropical vegetation flourish? What climate factors allow this kind of vegetation to grow in that area? |
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| Mediterranean zone - Syria, Morocco, Tunisia - cool rainy winters and warm dry summers. |
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| What physical feature separates Europe and Asia and connect the Aegean And Black Seas |
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| differences among groups based on their languages, customs, and beliefs |
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| basic urban necessities like streets and utlities |
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| to take plants and animals from the wild and make them useful to people. Farmers in north africa and asia were the first to do this. |
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| centers where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread. One of the first was the Tigris and Euphrates region |
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| writing sydtems of wedge shaped symbols used by the Sumerians |
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| a form of picture writing used by the egyptians |
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| underground canals built by the persians to carry water from the mountains across the desert to farmland |
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| a house of worship for Muslims |
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| a belief in the right of an ethnic group to have its own country |
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| to place under government control |
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| a ban on trade with a country |
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| large mud-bricked temples shaped like pyramids built by the Sumerians |
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| What groups of people live in this region? |
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| Arabs, Israelis, Turks, Iranians and Afghans, Cauasian people, Kurds |
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| How has urbanization affected ciies in N Africa, SW asia and Central Asia? |
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| Many problems such as pollution, poverty, snarled traffic have arisen |
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| What physical features allowed areas in Mesoptamia and the Nile Valley to become cultural hearths? |
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| fertile soil, rivers for water |
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| What basic idea is shared by Christianity, Judaism and Islam? |
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| In which areas of Israel do the Palestinians want an independent state of their own? |
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| underground layers of porous rock, gravel, or sand that hold water |
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| a process of removing salt from salteater |
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| land that is suitable for farming |
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| products derived from petroleum or natural gas |
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| the value of goods and services produced in a country in a year |
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| the yearly pilgammage to mecca in Islam |
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| How had natural gas helped advance the region's industrial growth? |
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| countries that have ioil have experienced rapid growth while those that do not have not grown rapidly. |
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| Whay do some regions int N Africa, SW Asia and Central Asia discourage tourism? |
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| to limit the influenc of unwanted outside influencs. |
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| What and where is the great man-made river project? |
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| Libya - two pipelines used to carry freshwater from an underground aquifer under the Sahara to farms in the mediterranean |
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| How did the Persian Gulf War affect the envirinment of the region? |
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| Iraquis set fire to oil wells this cause air pollution and dumped oil into into the persian gulf. |
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| What has cause the levels of the Dead Sea and the Aral sea to drop? |
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| water is diverted from feeder rivers for irrigation |
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