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Plant Life
Shape of the Land
Fresh Water
Physical Features
Human Settlement
100
The plant life of a place or region.
What is vegetation?
100
The surface features of a place or region.
What is topography?
100
Two sources of fresh water.
What are rivers, lakes and inland seas?
100
An area of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
100
This is the process of adding fertilizer or plant food to soil
What is fertilization?
200
Name three kinds of vegetation.
What are trees, flowers, bushes, reeds and grass?
200
When referring to topography, what are three of the features of the shape of the land?
What are mountains, hills, plains and deserts?
200
Farmers settled near the rivers for what food sources?
What are fish, water birds and animals that gather and hunt by the water?
200
On the north, Egypt was bordered by this sea
What is the Mediterranean?
200
This is a tough water plant used to make paper and rope in ancient times
What is Papyrus?
300
Early human settlers ate what vegetation?
What are wild plants and crops that they planted?
300
Flat and open areas where the farmers usually settled.
What are valleys and plains?
300
Natural flooding helped the farmers do this.
What is irrigate the fields?
300
East of Egypt you will find a long, thin channel of salty water called
What is the Red Sea?
300
Who is a person that moves from place to place with no permanent home?
What is a nomad?
400
Name four products that humans made from plants.
What are medicine, baskets, rope, tools and paper?
400
Less friendly area for humans to settle.
What are mountains and deserts?
400
Canals and trenches were dug by the farmers to do what?
What is bring water to the crops?
400
The Nile River Valley was surrounded by these three deserts
What are the Libyan, Arabian and Nubian?
400
Name two bodies of water that played a role in the settlement of Canaan
What is the Jordan River, The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea?
500
The Nile River is over how many miles long?
What is 4,100 miles?
500
The soil was richest in what part of the land?
What is coastal regions and river valleys?
500
Water was used for what four purposes?
What are drinking, bathing, washing, hunting, irrigation, transportation and to trade goods.
500
The abundant wildlife in the Nile region included what seven animals?
What are fish, ducks, geese, hippos, crocodiles, giraffes and ostriches?
500
People hunted, fished and farmed along the banks of this river Canaan
What is the Jordan River?