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Geography vocab
Terms to know test on 1/30/26
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sahara | world’s largest desert |
| dune | a vast hill of sand with few plants to hold it down |
| sahel | a three hundred mile wide band of grass covered plains in Africa between the Sahara and the tropical forests |
| alluvial deposits | sediment that is deposited by a river |
| oasis | areas of fertile land watered by a natural spring or other water sources, such as aquifers in the desert |
| aquaculture | cultivation or farming of fish in a controlled artificial environment |
| heiroglyphics | Egyptian writing system which included over one thousand symbols to relate meanings |
| Bedouin | the generic term for the thousands of nomadic tribes who live in the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa |
| patriarchal | having an organization of society in which the male head of the family exercises authority over all its generations |
| desertification | The changing of arable land into desert |