Geography
What mountain range is located between the Caspian and Black Sea?
What mountain range is located East of the Tigris River?
Caucasus Mountains
Zagros Mountains
The Persian King____________allowed the Jewish people to return to their homeland after being exiled by Nebuchadnezzar for nearly 70 years.
Cyrus the Great
What symbiotic relationship exists in the examples below:
Commensalism
Water, sunlight, oxygen, soil and temperature are examples of ____________.
One year, heavy rain makes Lake Raymond very deep. The next year, however, rain is very light, and not much water is left in Lake Raymond.
How will this most likely affect animal life in Lake Raymond?
A-There will be more animal life the second year.
B-There will be less animal life the second year.
Abiotic Factors
B-There will be less animal life the second year.
Ashurbanipal created the world's first library in ____________. This library predates the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.
__________is a collection of city-states ruled by a single ruler.
Nineveh (Iraq today)
Empire
This area just North of the Fertile Crescent is famous for its abundance of cedar trees and ship building skills. It also helped inspire the English alphabet.
The heel of the Italian peninsula points to _______. The toe of the Italian peninsula points to _______.
Phoenicia/Lebanon
Greece
Sicily
_____is the ancient city-state in Southern Asia Minor where people entered their homes through the roof top.
_________is one of the oldest continuously lived-in cities in the world. It is located near the Dead Sea and Jerusalem.
Catalhuyuk
Jericho
What symbiotic relationships exist in the examples below:
Mutualism
Animals as consumers, prey, predators, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, mutualists, or parasites are all examples of ________________.
Plants---->Insects--->Rats--->Snakes
After a time, the rat population grew too large. To reduce the rat population, local farmers introduced cats, which are efficient predators of rats. The plan was successful, and the rat population began to decrease.
Which of the following populations will most likely decline as a result of decreased food availability?
A. the snake population only
B. the snake, rat, and insect populations
Biotic Factors
A-the snake population only
Why did many ancient civilizations want to establish a form of government?
to create law and order (Safety)
________was the area of Southern Mesopotamia near the Persian Gulf.
Name 3 or more inventions of Southern Mesopotamia.
Sumer
Wheel, wooden plow, cuneiform, sail
____________was the Akkadian who created the world's first Empire.
____________destroyed Solomon's Temple and the city of Jerusalem. He also created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and exiled the Jews from their Homeland for nearly 70 years.
Sargon
Nebuchadnezzar
What symbiotic relationships exist in the examples below:
-Leeches They feed on the blood of other animals.
-Ticks feed on the blood of the hosts, spreading diseases such as typhus.
Parasitism
How are changes in populations related to the availability of an ecosystem's resources?
A-Population sizes are limited by the amount of resources that are available.
B-As populations grow, ecosystems produce more resources in order to support the larger population.
A-Population sizes are limited by the amount of resources that are available.
What is the oldest piece of literature in the world?
the Epic of Gilgamesh
____________was the King of Babylon who created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which was one of the Seven Wonder of the Ancient World. He also destroyed the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem and initiated the Babylonian Exile of the Jewish people for nearly 70 years.
Nebuchadnezzar
Ancient Mesopotamia refers to the place where humans first formed civilizations. It was here that people first gathered in large cities, learned to write, and created governments. For this reason Mesopotamia is often called the "_____________".
Cradle of Civilizations
What relationship in nature exists in the examples below:
-Hyenas and Lions searching for the same prey and territory
-Bears and Mountain Lions searching for the same prey and water source
Competition
__________is a triangle-shaped peninsula that connects Africa and Asia. It is part of Egypt. It lies north of the Red Sea, and is the location where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
Many people want to live in urban areas. One of the main factors that limits the maximum number of people that can live in an area is
A-the amount of space that is available to build shelter.
B-the amount of public transportation that is available.
The Sinai Peninsula
A-the amount of space that is available to build shelter.
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow into the ____________.
Why does the Nile River of Egypt flow from South to North?
Persian Gulf
Higher elevations in the South (Upper Egypt) and Lower elevations in the North (Lower Egypt) near the Nile Delta (Force of Gravity)
The word ____________ means "the land between rivers". This section of land in the Middle East between the Tigris and Euphrates River is located mostly in the country of modern day _______________.
Mesopotamia
Iraq
The Babylonian law created by King ______________, the _____________, may be the oldest written law in the world.
Hammurabi
Code of Hammurabi
The examples listed below illustrate what in an ecosystem:
Carrying Capacity
Which of the locations below were not considered a Mesopotamian civilization?
A-Indus River Valley
B-Sumer
C-Babylon
D-Assyria
A-Indus River Valley
What time period designations are commonly used for the years following the birth of Jesus Christ?
What time period designations are commonly used for the years prior to the birth of Jesus Christ?
AD-Anno Domini (In the Year of our Lord)
CE-Common Era
BC-Before Christ
BCE-Before the Common Era