Location
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Location
Vocabulary
100
This large body of water is north of Egypt.
The Mediterranean Sea
100
A means of controlling water (collecting and using) for the purpose of farming.
Irrigation
100
These large jagged waterfalls made it difficult to travel down areas of the Nile River.
Cataracts
100
The Nile River flows in which direction?
South to North (flows North)
100
Small particles of sediment and soil that are easily carried in water, often in rivers and deposited in soil to use for farming.
What is SILT?
200
The country located directly to the south of Egypt.
Sudan
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The name of the time period the Nile would flood.
Inundation
200
True or False. Trade was a necessity for Egyptian life?
False. Egyptians did not rely on trade.
200
Lower Egypt is located in______.
Northern Egypt
200
A tool the Egyptians developed to make it easier for farmers to gather water and move it to their fields.
THE SHADOOF
300
Another name given to the desert areas by the ancient Egyptians.
The Red land
300
The low strip of fertile ground located on either side of the Nile River.
Floodplain
300
The body of water located between Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Red Sea
300
What major geographical feature can be found in Lower Egypt?
Nile Delta
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This grass-like reed grows mainly in the delta region of Egypt.
PAPYRUS
400
Upper Egypt is located in what part of Egypt?
Southern part
400
"The Black land" was very good for _____
FARMING
400
Name three products Egyptians exported
Wheat, barley, papyrus, linen and surplus crops.
400
An extension of modern Egypt that is actually IN Asia.
The Sinai Peninsula
400
The person 2nd only to the pharaoh. On of their responsibilities is to oversee the minister of agriculture.
Who is Vizier?
500
This ancient Egyptian city is located on the edge of the Nile Delta? (Memphis, Thebes)
Memphis
500
Why would the Nile River flood in the late Spring?
Each spring, water would run off the mountains of East Africa and add water to the Nile.
500
Name 2 (TWO) resources imported (to Egypt) from Nubia.
GOLD and TROPICAL WOOD
500
This country is located to the west of Egypt
Libya
500
An economic system in which the government controls the way things are produced, such as land, labor, and machinery.
Command Economy