Arabic nature and environment: fill in the blanks · Grade 11

The word bank and sentences

Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line.

• Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
• oasis · solar · water · Sahara · rivers · kneel · desalination
• 1 The Arabic word for climate first meant a place where camels · to rest.
• 2 An · is a fertile spot in a desert where water reaches the surface.
• 3 Several Gulf countries turn seawater into fresh water through ____.
• 4 Date palms need hot sun above and plenty of · at their roots.
• 5 The Nile, one of the longest · in the world, flows north through Egypt and Sudan.
• 6 The English name · comes from the Arabic word for desert.
• 7 Morocco built one of the world's largest · power complexes near
• Ouarzazate.
• Your turn · Write a sentence of your own that uses a word from the word bank.