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Story Background
Sphinx
Ancient Egypt
Vocabulary
More About Egypt
100
Figurative language that makes comparisons using "like and "as".
What is a simile?
100
With one half being a man, this is the other half of the sphinx.
What is a lion?
100
How ancient Egyptians preserved dead bodies.
What is mummification?
100
Basic.
What is primitive?
100
Capital of present day Egypt, also a town in Southern Illinois.
What is Cairo?
200
Figurative language that makes a comparison between two things are not alike.
What is a metaphor?
200
Today, these are damaging the Sphinx.
What is pollution and tourists?
200
Where ancient Egyptians buried pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
200
Good for growing plants.
What is fertile?
200
Name of the pharaoh who might have had the Sphinx built.
Who is Khafre?
300
Graphic Organizer we used to show what we learned throughout the story.
What is a KWL Chart?
300
To stand guard over the three pyramids.
What was the purpose of the Sphinx?
300
What ancient Egyptians made paper from.
What is papyrus?
300
People who come after you.
What are descendants?
300
City on the Nile River, also the name of a city on the Mississippi River in Tennessee.
What is Memphis?
400
Genre that tells about real people, things, and events.
What is expository nonfiction?
400
Direction that the Sphinx faces.
What is east?
400
One of the most important things that ancient Egyptians learned to do which let them keep records for us to read thousands of years later.
What is writing?
400
A certain procedure or ceremony.
What is a ritual?
400
A family or group that holds power for several generations.
What is a dynasty?
500
In Secrets of the Sphinx, the facts presented in the story are supported by this.
What is evidence?
500
Name of the plateau that the Sphinx sits in front of.
What is the Giza Plateau?
500
What an ancient Egyptian was called if they knew how to write. It was a position of honor.
What is a scribe?
500
Thriving or doing well.
What is flourishing?
500
Archaeologist who discovered the tomb of King Tut.
Who is Howard Carter?