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Vocabulary
Watering the Fields
Egyptian Seasons
Trivia
100
A mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock.
What is silt?
100
The watering of land by means of canals or pipes.
What is irrigation?
100
The rainy season.
What is May to September?
100
The approximate length of the Nile River.
What is 4,000 miles? (4,160 miles)
200
A very fertile, flat land made of silt left behind as a river drains into a larger body of water.
What is a delta?
200
The name of the bucket lifter.
What is a shadouf?
200
October
What is the planting season?
200
When people began settling along the Nile River valley.
What is 5,000 B.C.?
300
The watering of land by means of canals and pipes.
What is irrigation?
300
Farmers dug small channels or _________, to bring water from the Nile to their farms.
What are canals?
300
July to October
What is the flood season?
300
Farmers depended on the right amount of ________ to grow successful crops.
What is flooding?
400
Located in the northern part of Egypt.
What is Lower Egypt?
400
Name of artificial lake used to collect water.
What is a reservoir?
400
March to June
What is the harvesting season?
400
Two animals that were a problem on the Nile River.
What are crocodiles and hippos?
500
Located in the southern part of Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
500
One reason why farmers needed to use this form of technology.
What is they were located in a hot desert?
500
This season was the one when people traveled the most on the Nile.
What is the flood season (July to October)?
500
Two main rivers that contribute to the Nile River.
What are the White Nile and the Blue Nile?