Egypt
Longest river which is about 4,000 miles long that flows into the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Nile River?
What is Tigris River and Euphrates?
What is the main body of water that surrounds Greece?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Name the 2 major rivers of Ancient India
What is the Indus and Ganges River?
The ______ taught the early Chinese people the techniques in flood control.
What is the Yellow River?
Natural barriers (2 atleast)
What are deserts, mountains, mediterranean sea, or the Red Sea?
When the Tigris and the Euphrates
would flood, a fine soil would be left
behind. This is a fine mixture of soil
and tiny rocks.
What is Silt?
This main land form of Greece is an area of land that is ALMOST entirely surrounded by water
What is a penninsula?
An elevated plain or a flat mountain.
What is a plateau?
The _______ is dangerous and dry. The water sources are very scarce and hard to find.
What is the Gobi Desert?
Transportation on the Nile was important to the Egyptian civilization because:
What is trade and transporting goods by boat?
Mesopotamia is located in what
larger, arc shaped region of fertile
farmland?
The sea between the Greek peninsula and Asia Minor?
What is the Aegean Sea?
A benefit of the Himalayan Mountains to Ancient India
What is protection from enemies?
The Himalaya Mountains helped to protect the early people who settled in the interior of China.
What is the most important advantage of the Himalaya Mountains?
The Nile River provided for farming for the Egyptians, what was the name of the technology used to help the Egyptians.
What is Irrigation?
In order to keep cities from flooding,
Mesopotamians learned to use ________,
or the ways of supplying water to land
through the use of canals, ditches, and
reservoirs.
What is Irrigation?
This is the biggest of Greece’s islands
What is Crete?
India is attached to Asia and surrounded on three sides by water. Because of these features, it is called a ___________.
What is a subcontinent?
Provides irrigation and fertile soil necessary for crops?
Both for 400, or one for 200
What is the Huange He (Yellow River) and the Yangtze River?
Agriculture in Egypt occured at different times because of _______ ______. This led them to have 3 different seasons.
What is flooding season?
Because of the surplus of food that
came as a result of the invention of
farming, people were able to have jobs
like crafters, government workers, and
religious leaders. This idea is called
____ __ ____.
What is Division of labor?
The climate in Greece is Mediterranean. Summers are _______ and _______ and winters are _______ and ______.
Some items can grow easily in this climate including olives, rosemary and figs. Goats handle the mountainous landscape well and were a common food source
What is hot and dry? What is cold and wet?
Name 3 reasons to live near a river
-All 3= 500 points
-2= 300 points
-1=100 points
What is fertile land, steady water supply, animals... etc?
3 natural barriers that isolated Ancient China
What is Himalayas, Gobi Desert, and the Pacific ocean?