Maps
Telegraph
Egypt
Railroad History
Nile Crocodiles
100

This shows the directions on a map

What is a compass or compass rose?

100

This inventor received a patent for his device

Who is Samuel Morse?

100

An ancient tourist attraction

What are the pyramids?

100

The person who drives a train

What is the engineer?

100

Crocodiles use this to see in the dark

What is night vision?

200

A spherical representation of the earth

What is a globe?

200

Dots and dashes make up this alphabet

What is Morse Code?

200

Pyramids were built for this reason

What is a tomb for the pharaoh?

200

Another name for a train station

What is a depot?

200

Favorite dinner for this hungry reptile

What are antelope, fish, zebra, buffalo, or wildebeests?

300

1” equals 1 mile is indicated by this

What is the scale?

300

The two main parts of the telegraph system

What are the key and the sounder? (can also accept poles and wires)

300

The longest river in Egypt

What is the Nile?

300

Method of powering the first trains

What is steam?

300

Crocodiles use this technique to kill their prey

What is the death roll?

400

A map that shows physical features such as land forms, mountains, and elevation

What is a physical map?

400

The telegraph was developed on this coast in 1844

What is the west coast?

400

Another name for the earliest type of paper

What is papyrus?

400

Method of powering modern trains

What is diesel-electric?

400

A mother crocodile carries her hatchlings here

What is her mouth?

500

Train tracks through Las Cruces travel these directions

What is north and south?

500

Methods of communicating long distance before the telegraph was invented

Any of these: What is smoke signals, drums, writing letters, sending messengers?

500

Main agricultural crops of ancient Egypt

What are barley, wheat, date palms, and grapes?

500

This company built the railroad in our area

What is the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe? Or What is AT&SF?

500

A full-grown crocodile can weigh up to this amount

What is 1000 lbs?