Central Asia and The Middle East Vocabulary

Match the following term to the correct definition

• The belief that a a group or nation should be an independent country

• Kibbutz

• To adapt plants and animals for human use.

• Nationalism

• A communal farm in Israel.

• Rift Valley

• A feature formed by tectonic plates separating.

• Geometric Boundray

• A boundaries that do not follow natural features and have straight lines.

• Domesticate

Match the following terms to the correct meaning.

• A cooperative settlement of small farms in Israel.

• Moshav

• Belief in one god.

• Stateless Nation

• Person believed to be a messenger from God.

• Monotheism

• An Islamic house of worship.

• Prophet

• An ethnic group without a formal country.

• Mosque

Match the following terms with the correct meaning.

• To support or continue without interruption

• Rely

• To be greater than/to do or be more than expected.

• Exceed

• The raising of animals for food an other products.

• Pastoralism

• Something produced. Ex. in a factory

• Output

• To be dependent on

• Sustain

Match the following term to the correct definition.

• A location where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward.

• Cultural Hearth

• Large steppe pyramid built by the Sumerians

• Assume

• A boundary created by a natural geographic feature.

• Ziggurat

• A ban on trade.

• Natural Boundary

• To gain or acquire

• Embargo

Match the following

• A mound or ridge of sand formed by the wind.

• Peninsula

• Extremely dry

• Dune

• A territory ruled by an Arab tribal leader.

• Sheikdom

• A hot dry suffocating wind that occasionally blows in the Arabian Peninsula.

• Simoom

• A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.

• Arid

Match the following

• This group believes that the first four successors or Muhammad are the rightful successors.

• Laws of Migration

• This group believes that Ali and the imams are the rightful successors of Muhammad.

• Sunni

• Islamic law based on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad.

• Shia

• Rules that govern the employment of foreign workers within a country.

• Shari'ah

• A conservative sect of Islam separate from other sects.

• Ibadhism

Match the following

• Islamic guerrilla fighters.

• Taliban

• A territory that is separated from it's political unit and surrounded by another country.

• Desalination

• The removal of salt from sea water to make it usable for drinking and irrigation.

• Exclave

• Fundamentalist Sunni Muslim group that took over Afghanistan 1996-2001.

• Enclave

• A distinct territory or cultural area that is within a foreign territory.

• Mujahideen

Match the following

• The pilgrimage to Makkah that Muslims must make once in their life.

• Document

• Policy that is influenced by physical, human, and economic geography.

• Hajj

• A strategic, narrow waterway between two larger bodies of water

• Choke Point

• To put in writing to keep as a record.

• Strategy

• A plan or method

• Geopolitics

Match the following

• Almost or nearly

• Expose

• To uncover or make vulnerable.

• Restrain

• To hold down or back.

• Radioactive Material

• Contamination from the generation of nuclear energy or the testing of nuclear weapons.

• Virtually