ch. 17 geography

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very narrow part of the Turkish straits that opens on its eastern end to the sea of Marmara

the Dardanelles

meeting in Iran that produced an international treaty to monitor and preserve wetland resources

ramsar convention

The practice of livestock farming, which may have begun in what is now Iraq

A place whose name means land of the aryans

A system of wedge shaped symbols pressed into clay tablets

place the nurtures the growth of a new culture that grows and spreads to other places

an endangered natural resource that provides freshwater and flood water containment and in typically grassy wet area

The homeland of the ancient sumerians and is known as the land between two rivers

Central massif that lies at a high elevation between turkeys Pontic and Taurus mountains

Anatolian plateau

City in which air pollution has caused thousands of deaths

due to high mountains that block moisture from major bodies of water much of the inland areas of the north east experience which type of climate

Arid or semi arid

which of the following very active faulr line is about 750 miles in length and extends across much of turkey

North Anatolian

today the majority of people living in the Northeast region are

Iran and Iraq joined with several oil producing neighbors to form OPEC which agreed to regulate oil production in order to

keep oil prices high

The Persian empire a rose to the east of Mesopotamia, across the Zagros mountains in present-day__before spreading across the region

about 5000 years ago the sumerians developed a code of writing as well as

A code of law and systems of mathematics

agriculture in Iraq has Negatively impacted due to soils that have become increasingly_

__ is the worlds largest inland body of water and is a key fisheries that is threatened by pollution

problems with__In Iraq raised the concern of US military officials who worried about the effects on American soldiers stationed there

A development project in turkey known as GAP involves the construction of nearly 2 dozen dams along the__

tigris and Euphrates rivers

The highest peak in Iran

restriction against buying or selling a certain product or with a certain country

Key waterway that marks the border between Asia and Europe and consist of three smaller waterways

Turkish straits

type of dry and mild climate zone and turkeys interior

semi arid steppe

deterioration of land due to the removal of trees and the excessive cultivation of soil

physical features such as mountain river or straight that serves as a border

natural boundary

waterway that flows into a larger river

an underground water wat first built during the Persian empire

Pyramid shaped temple built with mud bricks by the sumerians

group that considers itself a nation based on common culture, but that has no physical location of its own

stateless nation

due to mountains impact on climate, inland western & southern Iraq & eastern & southern Iran are mostly covered by

the ___ mountains were formed by the collision ofntye Eurasian & Arabian plates

____ populations in Syria, Turkey, Iran continue to push for more political autonomy & a country of their own

much of the oil shipped from the persian gulf must pass through the ___

strait of hormuz

kurds living in mountainous border areas of Turkey, Iraq, & Iran speak

dialects related to persian

rich alluvial souls of Mesopotamia supported the development of ___ which led to growth of villages, & then civilizations

soil in Iraq has high salinity which results from heavy ___ in a place where evaporation happens quickly

millions of tons of pollutants from industrial, household, & agricultural operations are poured into the __ each year

population of __ areas has been growing, so air pollution in these areas has worsened

activists have sought to prevent the destruction of archaeologists treasures that would occur if land is flooded for

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