Geography and Climate
Vocabulary
Ancient Egypt Break-Problem Solving
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Questions
100
The continent that Egypt is located
What is Africa?
100
This describes the soil along the Nile River. This kind of soil was good for farming.
What is fertile?
100
This is the sum of 2,547 and 5,132.
What is 7,679?
100
This word means long ago.
What is ancient?
100
This is the burial place for a pharaoh.
What is tomb or pyramid?
200
The name of the river that runs through Egypt
What is the Nile River?
200
A ruler in ancient Egypt is called this.
What is pharaoh?
200
This is the difference between 462 and 231.
What is 231?
200
This is a cloth made from flax plants.
What is linen?
200
The papyrus plant that grew along the Nile River was used to make this.
What is paper?
300
This is what happened to the Nile River every year.
What is flooded?
300
This is the system of writing in ancient Egypt.
What is hieroglyphics?
300
If Henry had 14 apples and Jane had 4 apples, this is how many more apples Henry now has if he gave Jane 3 and ate 1.
What is 3?
300
This is the sea that the Nile River flows into.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
This is one way that people in ancient Egypt used the Nile River.
What is for water....for food....for bathing....for good land to grow crops?
400
This describes the climate in Egypt.
What is hot and dry?
400
This is the person who wrote in ancient Egypt.
Who is the scribe?
400
Janice has 4 coins in her hand, 2 dimes and 2 nickels. Mary has 52 cents in her hand. Mary has ________cents more in her hand than Janice has in her hand.
What is 22 cents?
400
This is a person who studies ancient Egypt.
Who is an Egyptologist?
400
This was first made by accident in ancient Egypt because of the hot sand.
What is a mummy?
500
This makes up most of Egypt.
What is desert?
500
This is a burial tomb made out of mud bricks for early pharaohs and other wealthy people. It looked like a very large bench with a flat roof and slanted sides.
What is a mastaba?
500
Some of +Mrs. Linder's students brought their pets to school....that was a bit noisy and chaotic!!!! There were 8 animals. Some students brought dogs and some brought chickens. Yes, the dogs started chasing the chickens. During a calm moment, Zac and Rylan counted the animal legs in the room. They counted 26 animal legs. This is the number of chickens and the number of dogs that should have been home and not at school!
What are 5 dogs and 3 chickens?
500
This is where King Tut's mummy was buried.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
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