Geography
What is the world's second largest continent?
Africa
What is another name for Egypt related to the nile?
The ”Gift of the Nile”
What is the title given to an Egyptian king?
Pharaoh
What was the first season of the year in egypt? What occurred during this season?
Flooding Season- the people of Egypt worked on their building while they waited for the water to go down. They often built ditched to trap some of the floodwater inland for use in irrigation
Describe the Great Sphinx:
A monument with the head of a man and the body, legs, and paws of a lion that stands near the pyramids
What is a secretary to the ruler in a court, army, or temple called?
Scribe
What is the world’s largest desert that covers most of Egypt?
Sahara
What is a build up of loose sand and soil at the mouth of a river called?
Delta
Who is the second in command to the Egyptian king? Double jeopardy: Name the bible character with this role?
Vizier, Jospeh
What season happens after flooding season in Egypt? Describe what is done.
Planting Season- Egyptians planted their crops in the fertile soil left by the floodwaters
What is a body wrapped and preserved for eternal life called?
A Mummy
What are Hieroglyphics?
Ancient Egyptian writing using pictures to represent objects
World’s longest river?
Nile
What is a rock bed piled high in a river creating small waterfalls?
Cataract
Who was Akhenaton?
The First Pharaoh
What is the final season in Egypt?
Harvest Season- when the crops were gathered for another year
What is the name of most famous and largest of the pyramids still standing today? Double Jeopardy: Who is tomb is this?
Great Pyramid, King Khufu
Why was the Rosetta Stone so important?
It was the key to unlocking the meaning of the ancient Egyptian language.
Highest mountain in Africa?
Kilimanjaro
What was the irrigation device used by the Egyptians called?
Shadoof
What pharaoh's tomb revealed much about ancient Egypt?
King Tutankhamen
Double Jeopardy: How is Egypt naturally protected?
The deserts heat and lack of water discouraged invaders from coming over land, and the cataracts made it nearly impossible for invaders to use the Nile River as a means of attack
What is the area near Thebes where the tombs of many pharaohs have been found called?
Valley of Kings
Why did the Egyptians decline in power?
They had no iron to make strong weapons
What is a plateau?
A highland plain
What would happen when the Nile didn't flood? Double Jeopardy- define the term
Famine: A time of serious shortage of food
Who was ancient Egypt's only woman pharaoh?
Queen Hatshepsut
Papyrus is a plant that is abundant in Egypt. In ancient times it was used for many things such as weaving baskets and roofs. What was its most famous purpose?
Used to make the world’s first paper like material
What are tall pointed pillars representing the sun god, Ra called?
Obelisks
What is the low land between hills or mountains called?
Valley