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43846 Unit 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Golan Heights | hilly plateai overlooking the Joraden Riner and the Sea of Galilee, fought over for many centries |
| Wadi | a river bed that remines dry except during rainy seasons |
| Tigris River | One if the most important river of south west river Asia soprated many civilations |
| Euphrates River | a river in SW Asia whch has saported manny anchent civilations |
| Jordan River | a river that is a natral boundarly between Israel and Jordan |
| Dead Sea | the lowest place on Earth and the saltles bodie of water |
| Rub al-Khali | one of the largest sandy deserts in the world located in the Arabian Peninsula |
| Oasis | a place where water from an aqufir has reached the surface |
| Salt Falt | land made of chimacial salts that remain after winds evaporate the moisture in the soil |
| Drip irrigation | the partice of useing a smale pipe that slowly drip water just above ground to concvre water to use for cropes |
| Desalinization | revomal of salt from ocean water |
| Fossil Water | water oumoed from undeeground aqufires |
| Crude oil | potroleum that has not been processed |
| Refinery | a place where crude oil is tured in to useful items |
| Mecca | the holioest city of islam, where people go to make there perglimage |
| Islam | a monotheeistic religion based on the teachings of muhammad |
| Muhammad | the fiunder a propger of islam, who liced part of his life in mecca |
| Mosque | an islamic place of warship where muslims prat ffacing towards the holy city of mecca |
| Theocratic | a form of gorvemnt in which religious leaders control the goverment |
| OPEC | the organition of petroleum exporting countries |
| Westeren Wall | for Jews, the holist place in Jerusalem the only remaning pare of the second tempeal |
| Dome of the Rock | a shrine in Jerusalem which houses the spot where Muslims Believe muhammad rose into heaven |
| Zionsm | movement the began in th 19th centry to create and saport a Jewish homeland in Palistine |
| Palestine Liberation Organization | a group formed in the 1960s to regain Aeab land in Isral for Palesrinian Arabs |
| Kurds | Statles nation in south weast Asia |
| Mesopotamia | a reagon in SW Asia berween the Tigris and Euphartes rivers |
| Sunni | one of the two main branches of Islam, comprising of 83%of Muslims |
| shi'ite | one of the two main branches of Islam |
| Taliban | a strict Muslim group in Afghanistan that has imposed rigid rules on society |
| Guest Workeres | a largly unskild labor group |
| Stateless Nation | a nation of people that dose not have a territory to lefally occupy |
| Palestinians | a displaced group of aribs who lived or still live in the area formerly called palestine and now called Isral |
| West Bank | in Israle, a strap of land on the west side of the Jordan River, originaly controlled by Jordan, wich is part of the land set aside for Arab Palesrinians |
| Gaza Strip | a territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula; part of the land set aside for palesrinians, wich occipied by Isral in 1967 |
| Stregic Commodity | a resource so important that nations will go to war to ensure its steady supply |
| Human resources | the skill and talents of employed people |
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