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9th Grade Geography North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia
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9th Grade Geography North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia
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1. Where do the Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers begin?

2. A(n) _____ is a dry river bend that fills up when it rains in the desert.

3. Climate changes have expanded the area covered by _____.

4. The Atlas Mountains are located in _____.

5. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are located in _____.

6. The Sahel is a fragile area and is prone to _______.

7. Most of Egypt's people live on only 3 percent of its land, along the Nile ____.

8. The Aral Sea provided ____ of the Soviet Union's fish.

9. ________ is the expansion of arid condition into non-arid areas.

10. The landlocked _____ is the largest inland body of water on Earth.

11. What two things have been done to help the Aral Sea return to its former glory?

12. North Africa is dominated by the _____, the largest desert in the world.

13. The ____________ is located on the Arabian Peninsula.

14. Some countries are ______ their economies by developing industries other than oil.

15. Deserts cover about ____ of North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia.

16. The climate region called _____ extends from the norther Sahara to Kazakhstan..

17. The drying up of the _____ resulted from Soviet diversion of its water for irrigation.

18. North Africa and Southwest Asia have a _____ or ____ climate.

19. The Sahel has a ______ climate.

20. The Arabian peninsula is separated from Africa by the _____ and the Gulf of Aden.

21. The _______ does not have locks like the Panama Canal or the St. Lawrence Seaway.

22. What is the region south of the Sahara?

23. What has happened to the water that remains in the Aral Sea?

24. A(n) _____ is an area in the the desert where vegetation can grow because of water near or on the surface.

25. The ancient civilization of ____ thrived in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.