Natural Resources: Materials or substances that occur in nature and can be used for energy Suqs: an Arab market or marketplace a bazaar. Western Wall: located in the Old City of Jerusalem at the foot of the western side of the Temple Mount.īazaars: a market in a Middle-Eastern country. Kaaba: a cuboid building at the centre of Islam's most sacred mosqueĭome of the Rock: a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. Hagia Sophia: a former Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica Minaret: a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer.Ĭhurch of the Holy Sepulcher: a church within the Christian Quarter of the walled Old City of Jerusalem. Monotheistic: the belief in a single all-powerful god Suez Canal: Connects the Red Sea with the eastern Mediterranean Sea Oasis: a fertile spot in a desert where water is found.ĭelta: a triangular tract of sediment deposited at the mouth of a riverĪswan High Dam: embankment dam situated across the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. Wadis: a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season. Tigris River: is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define MesopotamiaĮuphrates River: the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.Īlluvial soil: fine particles of silt and clay and larger particles of sand and gravel. Jordan River: in northern Israel, flowing south through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. Nile River: a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa Strait of Hormuz: a strait between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf.
Persian/Arabian Gulf: an extension of the Indian Ocean ( Gulf of Oman) through the Strait of Hormuz. Red Sea: a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and AsiaĪrabian Sea: a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran Zagros Mountains: a mountain range in S and SW Iran, extending along parts of the borders of Turkey and Iraq Taurus Mountains: a mountain complex in southern Turkey, dividing the Mediterranean coastal region of southern Turkey from the central Anatolian Plateau.
Sahel : the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara desert to the north and the Sudanianĭesertification: the process by which fertile land becomes desertĪtlas Mountains: A system of ranges and plateaus of northwest Africa extending from southwest Morocco to northern Tunisia Sahara Desert: the world's hottest desert, and the third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic