Oasis
A fertile patch in the desert is referred to as a Oasis.
Any fertile land in a desert is called an oasis. It is fertile because it has enough water supply originating from a spring or a well.
An area where ground water reaches the surface, usually as a spring, is called an oasis. The water allows more plants to flourish there as compared to the surrounding desert.
Such a place is called an oasis.
A fertile place in a desert is called an oaisis.
An Oasis
An oasis
It's the other way around; Mesopotamia is part of the Fertile Crescent.Mesopotamia is only the eastern part of the Fertile crescent, in the current country of Iraq. The western part included Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine. It is called the fertile crescent because it is a fertile area in the surrounding desert and mountains, and it is shaped in a crescent.
NO - it is FERTILE.
The Egyptian fertile land was called Kemet (=Black Land) because of the fertile soil in the Nile river lands. Their desert land was called Red Landl
Although no more fertile that the surrounding desert, an oasis does have a permanent water source, such as a spring, that allows more plants to grow that in the surrounding arid land.
The fertile spot in the desert is called oasis. This spot where the elevation is low enough that the water table is right underneath the surface, resulting in the presence of springs.