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25 Cards in this Set
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Boundary
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ATLANTIC COASTLINE and IRAN
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Climate
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Arid, precipitation varies greatly
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OPEC
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- greatly influence global prices production levels for petroleum |
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Islamism
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challenges encroachment of global popular culture and blames
COLONIAL, IMPERIAL, AND WESTERN ELEMENTS for region's political, social, and economic problems |
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Human Activities influence on Geography of Region
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human activities+natural conditions reduced most of the region's forest to grass and shrub
Browsing by sheep and goats |
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Consequences of Deforestation
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long, slow detoriation of regions WATER supplies
-ACCELERATED soil erosion |
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Governments w/ Reforestation Drives
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Israel, Syria, Lebanon
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Where Salinization is a problem/Result
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wherever desert lands subjective to extensive IRRIGATION, specifically
- Iraq, (#1), iran Egypt and some of North Africa - results lower crop yields and land abandonment |
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qanat System
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iranian system of tapping into groundwater through series of gently slopping tunnels
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Benefits of Egypt's Aswan High Dam
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increased storage capacity in upstream reservoir made more water avaiable for year round agriculture
- generates large amount of electricity |
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Fossil water
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water supplies stored underground is used...
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Maghreb Region
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Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia- dominated by Atlas Mountains
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Levant
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Eastern Mediterranen region
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Climate
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- mostly dry and arid
- atlas mountains and lowlanrds of northern morocco, algeria, and tunisia experience a mediterranean climate (dry summers, cololer wet winteres) |
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physiological densities
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stat that relates number of people to amount of arable land...highest amnt on earth
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amnt of overall pop that is urban
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2/3
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spots where there is large populations
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Maghreb, and Nile valley
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High pop. in SW Asia
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eastern Mediterranean (Israel Lebanon and Syria). adn Turkey
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domestication
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plants and animals were purposefully selected and bred for desierable characteristics
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Fertile Crescent
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ecologically diverse zone- stretches from Levant inland through the fertile hill country of northern Syria into Iraq
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Pastoral Nomadism
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tradational form of subsistence agriculture where people depend on seasonal movemeot of lifestock for their livelihood
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transhumance
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practiced near highland zones (atlas mountains), seasonally moving livestock to cooler greener country pastures in summer and returning to valley loland setting for fall and winter grazing
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Oasis
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when ppl settle where there are highgroundwater levels/modern deep water wells provide reliable moisture
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Oasises made up of..
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traditonally- close knit families who work their own irrigated plots or absentee landowners
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exotic rivers
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transport precious water and nutrients from more humid lands into drier regions...where used for irrigation
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