
Central Asia and The Middle East Vocabulary
Authored by Kara Murrell
Social Studies
10th Grade
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1.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
2.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
3.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
4.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
5.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
6.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
7.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
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