Mesopotamia
This is the written language of the Mesopotamians.
What is Cuneiform?
This body of water is most associated with Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
The variable that is being tested in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
Egyptian god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
These lines run East to West.
What are lines of latitude?
These two bodies of water are most associated with Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
This is a triangular building with four sides that come to a point.
What is a pyramid?
One meter is this many millimeters.
What is one thousand?
This Egyptian goddess allegedly cried a river of tears over her slain husband.
Who is Isis?
This is the most important line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is nutrient-rich soil left behind by floodwaters.
What is silt?
This is the writing system of the Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphs?
One mile is this many feet.
What is 5,280?
Egyptian god of war and hunting.
Who is Horus?
This is the study of the human and nonhuman features of Earth.
What is geography?
This King sought immortality but did not find it.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This was the tallest building on Earth for over 3000 years.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
An experiment in which some variables are made to remain the same while others are made to change.
What is a controlled experiment?
Egyptian god of chaos, violence, deserts and storms.
Who is Set?
What is a hemisphere?
This is the earliest written law in existence.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This is a person who writes for a living.
What is a scribe?
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Using meters as a base unit, tell what each word stands for in the mnemonic device King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk.
What is kilometer, hectometer, dekameter, decimeter, centimeter, and millimeter?
Egyptian god of wisdom and writing.
Who is Thoth?
The invisible line running from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the axis?