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Critical Thinking
Interesting Facts
All about the Nile
Vocabulary
Geography
100
Why was the Nile so important to ancient Egyptians?
What is the Nile River has provided water and life to the people who lived by it.
100
What natural occurrence might the Egyptians have believed the god Amon-Ra helped explain?
What is the rising and setting of the sun?
100
The Nile River gave Egyptians many gifts to develop their civilization which is why it got it's name the ___ of ___
What is the giver of life?
100
A triangular-shaped area of soil at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
100
This scale of map is most useful when zooming close to see details of an area.
What is a large-scale map?
200
What solutions did the Egyptians come up with to deal with the flooding of the Nile?
What is irrigation systems?
200
The Nile provided a means of transportation, the main items it transported were _____ and ______.
What is food and paper?
200
The Nile flooded too much and destroyed crops and killed people. This is why it is also the ___ of ___.
What is Taker of Life?
200
A mixture of soil and small rocks.
What is silt?
200
maps with a ______ scale shows a larger area, but they show less detail. They will show only general features of an area.
What is small scale map?
300
Why did the Egyptians put together a calendar?
What is to keep track of the number of days between the flooding cycles.
300
____ is the land near the Nile where farmers planted seeds.
What is black land?
300
The river begins in ____
What is East Africa?
300
A plant that was used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
300
the direction the river flows
What is North?
400
How did the Egyptians prepare for times when the Nile did not flood enough and crops could not grow?
What is used the food they stored from surplus harvests.
400
Why did Egyptians call the "black land" black?
What is because it was very fertile?
400
The river begins in East Africa and flows northward into ____.
What is Egypt?
400
A waterfall.
What is a cataract?
400
This is where Lower Egypt is located
What is the northern part of Egypt?
500
What made it difficult for the ancient Egyptians to transport goods southward down the Nile?
What is six cataracts, or waterfalls, breaking up the flow of the Nile.
500
not far from the banks of the Nile is dry, desert land, or what the Egyptians called "______".
What is red land?
500
the Greek Historian Herodotus called Egypt the "______"
What is The Gift of the Nile?
500
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
500
If one inch represents 50 miles on a map, then what distance is represented 3 inches?
What is 150 miles?