The Gift of the Nile
Important Vocabulary
Geography
Research
100

The resource provided by the Nile which allowed for drinking, farming, transportation, and funerals.

What is water?
100

The ruler in Ancient Egypt.

What is a pharaoh?

100

The part of Egypt that includes the Nile Delta, Cairo, and the Pyramids of Giza.

What is Lower Egypt?

100

A strategy for determining whether an article found online is "good or bad."

What is the CRAAP method?

200

Without the Nile, Egypt would be primarily be made up of this.

What is desert?

200

A measure of how many people live in an area (think of maps).

What is population density?

200

The capital of Egypt.

What is Cairo?

200

The letter P in the CRAAP acronym.

What is purpose?
300

This allows for the land next to the Nile to become fertile during specific times of year.

What is flooding?
300

The language which the word "Nile" comes from.

What is Greek? (Nelios -- River Valley)

300

The Delta, the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, and the Nile Valley.

What are the four geographical zones of Egypt?

300

The two letters in the CRAAP acronym.

What are accuracy and authority?

400

The river slows down as it reaches the Mediterranean Sea, which allows for this substance to be deposited.

What is silt?

400

Land that was close to the Nile and good for farming.

What is black land/Deshret?

400

The two seas that border Egypt.

What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea?

400

A necessary thing to research when reading an article, so you can be certain of their biases.

What is the author and the publisher?

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