Ch. 3 Sec. 1 Geography of the Nile

 An early description of the Nile was written by the Greek historian __________.

• Herodotus
• Kermit the Frog
• John Paul Jones
• King Sargon II

The direction that the Nile River flows is _______ to the Mediterranean Sea from its sources in ________.

• north, United States
• north, Africa
• south, Persian Gulf
• north, Persian Gulf

The Blue Nile and the White Nile meet in the present-day country of _________.

• Sudan
• Babylonia
• Nineveh
• Rhode Island

The _______ Nile races down to the desert in thundering torrents.

• Blue
• White
• Yellow
• Pink

The ________ Nile is calmer, flowing northward through swamps.

• White
• Blue
• Yellow
• Pink

The  _________ region of the Nile near the Mediterranean Sea is know as ___________ Egypt

• marshy, Lower
• rocky, Lower
• marshy, Upper
• rocky, Upper

The ancient Egyptians called their land _________, "the black land," because of the dark soil left by the Nile's floods.

• Kemet
• silt
• dirt
• rocky

__________ is an ancient region in the Nile River Valley, on the site of present-day Egypt and northern Sudan.

• Nubia
• Babylonia
• Phonecia
• California

In the Nubian section of the Nile, the river contains many rock-filled rapids, or ___________.

• cataracts
• blueberries
• plains
• deserts

The ________ of the Nile, a triangular-shaped plain of very rich farmland, is located in Lower Egypt.

• delta
• desert
• cataracts
• covenant