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12 Cards in this Set
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Caucasus Mts.
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Mountains that rise north of Mount Ararat betwen the black and caspian sea
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Atlas Mts.
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the longest mountain range that extends across Morocco and Algeria
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Arabian Peninsula
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a Peninsula surrounded by the red sea and the gulf of Aden
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Persian Gulf
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A gulf that frames the peninsula on the east and the Arabian sea borders it on the south.
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Sinai Peninsula
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the gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba flank this peninsula
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Dead sea
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a landlock body of salt water east of the mederaterains sea. It is the smalles of three and sits at the mouth of the Jordan River
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Caspian sea
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the largest inland body of water on Earth. it laps the shores of Asia and Europe
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Aral Sea
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it was the world's foruth larges inland sea (in the 1960's) but today it is very small. it began to dry up when the soviet Uniono diverted water for irrigation from the rivers flowing into the sea. this split the sea into two seas.
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Nile River
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the world's largest river. It is in Egypt and is 4,160 miles
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Tigris River and Euphrates River
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they flow mainly through Iraq.
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Sahara
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the largest desert in the world. it coveres 3.5 million square miles ot most of North Afrcia
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Pastoralism
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The rasing and Grazing of livestock
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