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Unit 1.2
S.W. Asia Middle East Environment Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Oil | largest natural resource in the Middle East |
| Water | necessary for people and animals to live and crops to grow; most people live close to water supplies, such as rivers or urban areas. |
| Natural Resource | something that is found in nature and is necessary or useful to humans. |
| Irrigation | process to move water from rivers, lakes, or other water supplies to farms |
| Agriculture | farming; major source of survival in rural (less-developed) areas, such as Afghanistan |
| Water rights | agreements about how countries can use the water in a region. |
| Aquifer | an underground layer of material from which groundwater can be extracted |
| Occupied Territories | areas taken from other nations following a war |
| Water Pollution | contamination of water bodies, such as rivers, oceans, lakes, and groundwater, caused by human activities. |
| Extraction | process of taking natural resources out of the ground |
| Desalination | process for removing the salt from salt water to make it suitable for drinking and farming |
| Dead Sea | lowest point on the earth's surface and has the highest concentration of salt |