Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
Map Skills
Geography Terms
Grab bag
100
The system of government in which a king or queen rules.
What is a monarchy?
100
The use of connected ditches, canals, dikes and dams to move water to dry areas.
What is irrigation?
100
Letter A on the map.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
100
The longer of the two main rivers in Mesopotamia River.
What is the Euphrates River?
200
A huge mud-brick pyramid built by the ancient Sumerians.
What is ziggurat?
200
Remains of bones dug up from the ground.
What are fossils?
200
Letter B on the map.
What is the Nile River Valley?
200
A place where a river empties into a lager body of water.
What is a mouth of a river?
200
The river that is farther east of the two rivers of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris River?
300
A city and its surrounding farmland with its own leaders and government.
What is a city-state?
300
Man-made items that are found by an anthropologist.
What are artifacts?
300
Letter E on the map
What is Mesopotamia?
300
A triangle-shaped area of land at the end of a river.
What is a delta?
300
The area of land located between the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
A region with a single government and a united group of people.
What is a nation-state?
400
A writing that uses wedge-shaped triangles pushed into clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
400
Letter C on the map.
What is the Red Sea?
400
A large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain or over land.
What is a glacier?
400
A large waterfall.
What is a cataract?
500
Name two main characteristics of the Paleolithic Age.
What are hunting and gathering and bands?
500
Name two main characteristics of the Neolithic Age.
What is farming, domestication, agriculture, civilization, etc?
500
Letter D on the map.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
500
A low flat area near a river.
What is a floodplain?
500
A place with little rainfall and few plants.
What is a desert?
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