Spring Semester Exam Review

Narrow body of water that controls access to key trade paths

• strategic waterways

• archipelago

• peninsula

• ocean

This body of water shrank to 1/4 of its original size due to over-farming by the USSR

• Lake Ray Roberts

• Aral Sea

• Dead Sea

• Lake Victoria

non-renewable resource responsible for SW Asia wealth

• coal

• gold

• diamonds

• oil

not enough of something; a lack

• scarcity

• abundance

• population

• apartheid

What is the most common climate in SW Asia?

• Tundra

• Desert

• Tropical

• Mediterranean

The process of removing salt from seawater to make it drinkable

• Desalination

• Reverse Osmosis

• Berkey

• Hydroelectric

government controlled by religion; ex: Iran, Saudi Arabia

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, controls oil prices

• OPEC

• Stark Industries

• Oil Rig

• Apex Legends

city holy to Muslims, Christians, and Jewish people

• Jerusalem

• Mecca

• Medina

• Rome

belief in one god

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Atheism

• Theocracy