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Map Skills
Culture
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Current Events/ Hodgepodge
100
The continent that we live on
What is North America?
100
This element of culture would include Twilight and Justin Bieber.
What is: Arts and Entertainment?
100
This is the meaning of Mesopotamia.
What is "the land between the rivers"?
100
This part of Egypt was located in the NORTH and has fertile land.
What is Lower Egypt?
100
This is the mayor of New York City.
Who is Michael Bloomberg?
200
This symbol on a map helps us to tell directions.
What is a compass rose?
200
The mayor, the governor and the president are part of this element.
What is politics?
200
Mesopotamia is located between the Tigris and this other river.
What is the Euphrates River?
200
This was the name given to Egyptian picture writing AND the # of symbols that it contained.
What is hieroglyphics and what is 750?
200
This is the governor of New York State.
Who is Andrew Cuomo?
300
VISUAL
What is West?
300
Nomads moved from place to place in search of this element.
What are basic needs?
300
This was the name of the first type of writing that developed in Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
300
This is the name given to Egyptian kings and the oldest stone structures that were built as tombs for them.
What is pharaoh and what are pyramids?
300
This is the date on which the Twin Towers collapsed due to a terrorist attack.
What is 9/11/2001?
400
We have studied two ancient civilizations. Ancient people settled near this geographic feature.
What are rivers?
400
A scribe would be considered this part of the culture web. (You must provide a reason for your answer!)
What is.... Answers may vary.
400
This set of rules was very strict and used the concept of "an eye for an eye".
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
This is fertile land made of silt left behind as a river drains into a larger body of water.
What is a delta?
400
These are the names of the current President and Vice-President of the United States of America.
Who are Barack Obama and Joe Biden?
500
This is the ocean that we swim in when we go to the beach in New York.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
500
This is the INNOVATION for a telephone AND the part of the culture web that they both fit into.
What is a cell phone and communication?
500
The rivers of the Fertile Crescent empty into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
Name two facts about the Nile River.
What is: Answers may vary. It is the world's longest river. It is over 4000 miles long. It empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
500
This is the name of the terrorist group and its leader (now deceased) responsible for the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers.
What is Al-Qaeda and who is Osama bin Laden?