UNIT 7 VOCABULARY TEST: southwest asia

  1. A place where water from an aquifer has reached the surface; it supports vegetation and wildlife.

a. oasisc. drip irrigation

b. water tabled. fossil water

  1. It supported several ancient river valley civilizations, and flows through parts of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.

a. Euphrates Riverc. Nile River

b. Jordan Riverd. Tigris River

  1. Land made of chemical salts that remain after winds evaporate the moisture in the soil.

a. Dead Seac. salt flat

b. desalinizationd. wadi

  1. A group established in 1960 by some oil-producing nations to coordinate policies on selling petroleum products.

a. CBDc. OPEC

b. PLOd. NATO

  1. A displaced group of Arabs who lived or still live in the area formerly called Palestine and now called Israel.

a. Kurdsc. Sunni

b. Palestiniansd. Taliban

  1. A monotheistic religion based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad, and the biggest cultural and religious influence in North Africa.

a. Islamc. Theocratic

b. Mosqued. Zionism

  1. Also known as the Empty Quarter; one of the largest sandy deserts in the world, covering about 250,000 square miles; located on the Arabian Peninsula.

a. Golan Heightsc. Mesopotamia

b. Meccad. Rub al-Khali

  1. In Israel, a strip of land on the west side of the Jordan River, originally controlled by Jordan, which is part of the land set aside for Arab Palestinians.

a. Dome of the Rockc. West Bank

b. Gaza Stripd. Western Wall

  1. The skills and talents of employed people.

a. guest workersc. strategic commodity

b. human resourcesd. stateless nation

  1. Water pumped from underground aquifers.

a. oasisc. drip irrigation

b. water tabled. fossil water

  1. It is 1,349 feet below sea level, making it the lowest place on the exposed crust of the earth.

a. Dead Seac. salt flat

b. desalinizationd. wadi

  1. Serves as a natural boundary between Israel and Jordan, flowing from the mountains of Lebanon with no outlet to the Mediterranean Sea.

a. Euphrates Riverc. Nile River

b. Jordan Riverd. Tigris River

  1. Comprising about 83 percent of all Muslims, including those in Turkey, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

a. Kurdsc. Sunni

b. Palestiniansd. Shi’ite

  1. A group formed in the 1960’s to regain the Arab land in Israel for Palestinian Arabs.

a. CBDc. OPEC

b. PLOd. NATO

  1. A form of government in which religious leaders control the government, relying on religious law and consultation with religious scholars.

a. Islamc. Theocratic

b. Mosqued. Zionism

  1. The holiest city of Islam, located in Saudi Arabia, where people make pilgrimages to fulfill Islamic religious duty.

a. Golan Heightsc. Mesopotamia

b. Meccad. Rub al-Khali

  1. A shrine in Jerusalem, located on the Temple Mount, which houses the spot where Muslims believe Muhammad rose into heaven and where Jews believe Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac to God.

a. Dome of the Rockc. West Bank

b. Gaza Stripd. Western Wall

  1. A largely unskilled laborer, often an immigrant from South and East Asia, brought in to the oil-booming countries to fill job openings that the region’s native peoples find culturally or economically unacceptable.

a. guest workersc. strategic commodity

b. human resourcesd. stateless nation

  1. The practice of using small pipes that slowly drip water just above ground to conserve water to use for crops.

a. oasisc. drip irrigation

b. water tabled. fossil water

  1. A riverbed that remains dry except during the rainy seasons.

a. Dead Seac. salt flat

b. desalinizationd. wadi

  1. Supported several ancient civilizations and flows through parts of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq and empties into the Persian Gulf.

a. Euphrates Riverc. Nile River

b. Jordan Riverd. Tigris River

  1. An ethnic group in Southwestern Asia that has occupied Kurdistan, located in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, for about a thousand years, and who have been involved in clashes with these three countries over land claims for most of the 20th century.

a. Kurdsc. Sunni

b. Shi’ited. Taliban

  1. A hilly plateau overlooking the Jordan River and the Sea of Galilee; a strategic location that has been the site of conflict in Southwest Asia for decades.

a. Golan Heightsc. Mesopotamia

b. Meccad. Rub al-Khali

  1. A movement that began in the 19th Century to create and support a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

a. Islamc. Theocratic

b. Mosqued. Zionism

  1. A resource so important that nations will go to war to ensure its steady supply.

a. guest workersc. strategic commodity

b. human resourcesd. stateless nation

  1. For Jews, the holiest site in Jerusalem; the only remaining portion of the Second Temple, built in 538 B.C. and destroyed in A.D. 70 by the Romans.

a. Dome of the Rockc. West Bank

b. Gaza Stripd. Western Wall

  1. A nation of people that does not have a territory to legally occupy, like the Palestinians, Kurds, and Basques.

a. guest workersc. strategic commodity

b. human resourcesd. stateless nation

  1. The removal of salt from ocean water.

a. Dead Seac. salt flat

b. desalinizationd. wadi

  1. A group in Afghanistan that has imposed rigid rules on society, including prescribed clothing styles for both men and women, restrictions on the appearance of women in public places, and regulations on television, music, and videos.

a. Kurdsc. Shi’ite

b. Palestiniansd. Taliban

  1. A region in Southwest Asia between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers, which was the location of some of the earliest civilizations in the world; part of the cultural hearth known as the Fertile Crescent.

a. Golan Heightsc. Mesopotamia

b. Meccad. Rub al-Khali