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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
Pastorialism
A place whose name means land of the aryans
Iran
A system of wedge shaped symbols pressed into clay tablets
cuneiform
place the nurtures the growth of a new culture that grows and spreads to other places
culture hearth
an endangered natural resource that provides freshwater and flood water containment and in typically grassy wet area
Marsh
The homeland of the ancient sumerians and is known as the land between two rivers
mespotamiq
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
Tehran
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
muslim
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
Iran
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_
Saline
__ is the worlds largest inland body of water and is a key fisheries that is threatened by pollution
Caspian Sea
problems with__In Iraq raised the concern of US military officials who worried about the effects on American soldiers stationed there
Air pollution
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
Mount Damavand
restriction against buying or selling a certain product or with a certain country
embargo
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
erosion
physical features such as mountain river or straight that serves as a border
natural boundary
waterway that flows into a larger river
feeder stream
an underground water wat first built during the Persian empire
qanat
Pyramid shaped temple built with mud bricks by the sumerians
ziggurat
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
deserts
the ___ mountains were formed by the collision ofntye Eurasian & Arabian plates
Zagros
____ populations in Syria, Turkey, Iran continue to push for more political autonomy & a country of their own
Kurdish
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
agriculture
soil in Iraq has high salinity which results from heavy ___ in a place where evaporation happens quickly
irrigation
millions of tons of pollutants from industrial, household, & agricultural operations are poured into the __ each year
caspian sea
population of __ areas has been growing, so air pollution in these areas has worsened
urban
activists have sought to prevent the destruction of archaeologists treasures that would occur if land is flooded for
GAP
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