The Middle East

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Breakfast food eaten with milk (6)
  2. 5. A ___ range in northern Africa between the Mediterranean and the Sahara Desert (14)
  3. 9. A lake to the east of the Caspian ___ lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (7)
  4. 12. A ___ in northeastern Egypt (14)
  5. 14. A fertile tract in a desert (5)
  6. 15. The world's longest ___ (9)

Down

  1. 1. A shallow arm of the Arabian Sea between Iran and the Arabian peninsula (11)
  2. 3. A ___ in southwestern Asia (14)
  3. 4. A saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan (7)
  4. 6. A large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River (10)
  5. 7. The world's largest desert in northern Africa (6)
  6. 8. A salt of ___ acid (9)
  7. 10. A long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia (6)
  8. 11. A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey (8)
  9. 13. Gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy (4)