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Geo Ch. 4 #1
MENA
Question | Answer |
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A symbol of Dubai's urban and economic growth and diversity, with luxury hotels and high class amenities | Saadiyat Island |
The Dubai Plan 2021 is a ______ CITY that is to have inclusiveness, ______ and good governance | SMART; Sustainability |
The building of Dubai's Smart City is leading to _______ labor with workers from Bangladesh and Pakistan living in substandard living conditions | Exploitative |
MENA is a diverse region with pine forests, ______ and great plains | Deserts |
______ have created highland environments and sources of _______ for the Nile and Tigress/Euphrates Rivers | Plates; Water |
Human______ to the environment in MENA led to some of the earliest ______ societies in the world | Adaptation; Agricultural |
MENA's dominate climate is ______ | Aridity |
MENA lowlands are extremely ____ and during the summer the ______ get visitors who are trying to escape the heat of the lowlands | Lowlands; Highlands |
MENA has low (<10) ______ except near the coastal mountain area | Precipitation |
Much of MENA's soil is _______ with few nutrients so agriculture must be ______ | Thin; Irrigated |
MENA does have great soil for agriculture in the lowlands, coastal plains and the floodplains along the ______ | Nile |
Most precipitation in MENA occurs on the ______ ranges | Mountain |
Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon are ______ sources for MENA's lowlands | Water |
The coastal areas in MENA get 40+ inches of rain/year so the rain lets them do "_____ " and they do not need irrigation | Dry Farming |
MENA architecture includes ____ ceilings, thick walls, and shady courtyards to help reduce the ______ | High; Heat |
To deal with MENA ______, peoples patterns of daily and season activity changes- move to the mountains in the summer and ______ in the winter | Aridity; Lowlands |
Plants and animals have _____ to MENA's arid climate | Adapted |
Many countries have joint UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol as they realized they are susceptible to _____ change due to their arid climate | Climate |
MENA coastal areas are at risk for climate change due to rising sea levels encroaching on _____ systems in low lying areas | Freshwater |
MENA produces a lot of carbon so some countries receive payment for investing in climate change projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is called _______ Market | Carbon |
Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Algeria, Morocco, Iran, and Saudi Arabia participate in Carbon Market to get paid joining projects to reduce _______ ______ emissions | Greenhouse Gas |