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chapter 15 north afr
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| qanat | a fertile with in a dry desert area |
| lrrigation | the procerss of redirecting water to rops through |
| nonrenewable | cannot reproduce quickly enough to keep up with its |
| arid | very dry having almost no rainfall |
| desertification | a gradual transformati on from fertile to less |
| alluvial plain | flat area of land next to a stream of river that floods |
| silt | dine particles os solid deposited along riverbanks |
| petrolrum | raw materials used to produce |
| fault | fracture in Earth's crust |
| oasis | a fertile place with water in a dry desert a area |
| cultural hearth | center of civilization from which ideas and |
| agricultural revolution | a period in which humans began to grow crops |
| domesticate | to keep and use animais as a source of labor and |