Geography
Vocab
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100

What is the diameter of the earth?

8,000 miles

100

What does A.D. mean?

"in the year of our Lord."

100

What is the wedge-shaped writing of Sumer?

Cuneiform
200

Six sevenths of the world's people live in which hemisphere?

Eastern Hemisphere

200

What is the only completely accurate record of ancient history?

the Bible

200

Where did Noah's ark land?

Mt. Ararat

300

What ocean is between the Americas and Europe or Africa?

Atlantic

300

What word means "between two rivers"?

Mesopotamia

300

What is the word that means "between two rivers"?

Mesopotamia

400

What is the smallest and coldest ocean?

Arctic

400

Which hemisphere has more land?

Eastern Hemisphere

400

What land did Abraham come from?

Ur

500

What is the warmest ocean?

Indian Ocean

500

What is a person who digs up and studies remains of ancient cities called?

Archeologist

500

What land did God promise to Abraham?

Canaan

600

What is the largest ocean?

Pacific

600

Name two inventions of the Sumerians

Wheel, writing

600

What is the main occupation in Sumer?

Farmers