Egypt
This river was essential for farming and life in Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
A long period with very little or no rain is known as this.
What is a drought?
A close-up shot usually focuses on this part of a character.
What is the face?
A short, catchy phrase used to convince an audience is known as this.
What is a slogan?
Australia’s system of government is known as this type of democracy.
What is a representative democracy?
The Egyptians believed this part of a person would continue into the afterlife.
What is the soul/ka?
Water stored underground in rocks and soil is called this.
What is groundwater?
Music used in a film to create mood is called this.
What is the soundtrack/score?
Asking questions that don’t need an answer is known as this technique.
What are rhetorical questions?
This age is when Australians can vote.
What is 18?
This process preserved bodies so they could be used in the afterlife.
What is mummification?
Water that falls from the sky as rain, snow, or hail is called this.
What is precipitation?
When a film uses dark lighting to create suspense, it's using this visual technique.
What is lighting for mood or low-key lighting?
These three persuasive techniques—attack, praise, and exaggeration—are examples of this language type.
What is emotive language?
The Australian Parliament is made up of these two houses.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
Egyptian society was structured in this shape, with the pharaoh at the top.
What is a social pyramid?
When water becomes scarce because too many people use it, it is called this type of scarcity.
What is economic water scarcity?
Sound that characters can hear within the story world is called this.
What is diegetic sound?
A writer might use comparisons such as “like” or “as” to persuade the reader through imagery.
What is a simile?
A change to the Constitution can only be made through this national vote.
What is a referendum?
This stone helped scholars decode hieroglyphics by showing three scripts.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This process removes salt from seawater to make it safe to drink.
What is desalination?
When a film shows something from a character’s perspective, it is called this type of shot.
What is a point-of-view shot?
A statement that broadens one example to make a point about a whole group is called this.
What is a generalisation?
This candidate won our election in week 6.
Who is Layla Hope?