Southwest Asia/North Africa-Vocabulary

Monotheism

• Belief in one God

• Belief in MORE than one God

• Loves to play Monopoly the board game

• Does not believe in religion

Scarcity

• A scared city

• Shortage of goods or services when it is in demand

• There's plenty to go around

• A city in Southwest adia

Desalinization

• The process of removing oil from the ground

• A type of religion

• Process of removing salt from sea water and converting it to drinkable water

• The process of adding salt to your food

A natural resource that cannot be replenished at the same rate that it is used.

• Renewable resource

• Non-renewable resource

• Gas station resource

• Internet resource

Renewable resource

• A natural resource that cannot be depleted

• A resource that cannot be replenished

• A resource that you can buy in the store

• Oil is an example of a renewable resource

Desalination plants were created in the Middle East to combat the _________________ in the region.

• abundance of water

• absence of emotion

• lack of water

• lack of winter

What religion connects Southwest Asia & North Africa into a cultural region?

• Judaism

• Christianity

• Hinduism

• Islam

OPEC is an organization that works together to do what?

• Protect oil by working together

• Sell oil more expensive

• Trade oil to rich countries

One similarity between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is they ___.

• are all polytheistic and believe in many gods

• are all monotheistic and believe in one god

• have the same founder of their religions

• were all founded in the exact same location

The green crescent and star shown here appeared on coins from the Sassanid empire from 600 CE. It is a symbol for which religion?

• Islam

• Judaism

• Roman Catholic

• Eastern Orthodoxy