Mesopotamia
What is the large area with fertile soil where Mesopotamia developed called?
Fertile Crescent
What is matter?
Anything that takes up space
Who was the first Egyptian pharaoh that united upper and lower Egypt?
Explain how Egyptians made it to the afterlife?
Went to underworld, had to go through 12 gates and defeat demons, get judged by other gods, weigh your heart against a feather.
What is current?
The flow of electricy
What was the first city in Mesopotamia?
Uruk
What is density?
In which kingdom were most of the pyramids made?
Old Kingdom
What were the 3 types of alphabets/writing that we discussed this year and where are they from?
Cuneiform - Mesopotamia
Hieroglyphics - Egypt
Meroitic Script - Kush
What is current measured in?
Amps
Who was the first leader of the Akkadian Empire?
Sargon
What equation do we use to find the density of an object or liquid?
D=M/V
Who was the pharaoh that shouldn't have been pharaoh?
Hatshepsut
Which civilization had female leaders? What were they called?
Kush and Queen-Mothers (Candaces)
How does distance and thickness of a wire affect electricity?
The longer and smaller the wire the more resistance.
Who made the first set of written laws?
Hammurabi
Does something bigger in size always have a higher density than something smaller in size? Explain.
No. It depends on the mass and volume of that object.
Where was upper and lower Egypt located on the map?
Lower is North, Upper is South
How old were the "first humans" we talked about this year. What do we call them? (There are two of them.)
Ardi - 4.4 million
Lucy - 3.2 Million
What is resistance and what is it measured in?
The slowing down of current. Ohms
What was the biggest empire we learned about in Mesopotamia?
Persian
Which liquid and solid that we used had the highest density?
Corn syrup and aluminum block
What were the two famous pieces of Egyptian literature?
The Book of the Dead and The Tale of Sinhue
Explain independent, dependent and controlled variables.
Independent- what is changed
Dependent- the outcome/result
Controlled- what stays the same
Explain what the difference between a series and a parallel circuit?
One path vs multiple paths