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100

The longest river on Earth

What is the Nile River?

100
A means of controlling water (collecting and using) for the purpose of farming.
Irrigation
100

This part of a camel stores fat not water

What is Camel humps

100

Used to make mummy sarcophogus'

What is a fig/fig tree?

100
Small particles of sediment and soil that are easily carried in water, often in rivers and deposited in soil to use for farming.
What is SILT?
200

Climate of Egypt

What is arid/desert?

200

How does a camel adapt to sand

Third eye and large padded feet

200

This is a stone marker for crops of Egyptians

What is a stela

200

Made into paper

What is papyrus?

200

This is an annual flood of Nile River

What is Inundation 
300

Fertile land created by silt as river flows into a larger body of water

What is a delta?

300

This is the name given to the gift of the flood bringing fertile land to Egypt each year

The Gift of the Nile

300

This is fertile land right along the Nile River

What is Black land

300

Woven into cloth worn by Egyptians

What is flax?

300

This grass-like reed grows mainly in the delta region of Egypt.

PAPYRUS

400

Spread of desert to non-desert land

What is desertification?

400

Months the Nile River flooded

June-September

400

The mouth of the Nile River is

What is the Mediterranean Sea

400
Fed to animals and made into bread and beer

What is barley?

400

This measures height of inundation through steps or pillars

What is nilometer?

500

Name for desert land on either side of Nile River

What is Red Land?

500
Why would the Nile River flood in the late Spring?
Each spring, water would run off the mountains of East Africa and add water to the Nile.
500

Source of the Nile River is

What is Lake Tana and Lake Victoria

500

Barley would contain __________ which hurt the teeth of Egyptians

What is stones and minerals?

500
Fast moving rapids in the Nile River

What are cataracts?