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Social Studies
Mesopotamia/fertile crescent
Question | Answer |
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what is silt | soil that comes from flood erosion |
what is loess | yellow soil, dry regions, wind-blown silt |
Saudi Arabia has a lot of | petroleum (oil) resources |
what is a penninsula | land surrounded by water on three sides |
what is latiude | imaginary lines that run east to west on a map |
what is longitude | imaginary lines that run north to south on a map |
what are the compass directions | north, south, east, west, north-east, south-east, north-west, south-west |
what does a legend do | it tells you what the symbols mean on a map |
what is cineiform | early Sumerian writing on clay tablets |
what is Hammurabi's code | a code of laws, includes eye-for-and-eye |
what was the fertile crescent | the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |