Chapter 3 - Mesopotamia

________ means "land between 2 rivers".

• Mesopotamia
• Sumer
• Tigris
• Euphrates

Mesopotamia was located between the ________ and Euphrates Rivers.

• Tigris
• Nile
• Congo
• Amazon

Mesopotamia is located in the country that we now know as ________.

• Iraq
• Iran
• Turkey
• Syria

The people of Mesopotamia used dams and levees to control the water from the rivers for ________.

• irrigation
• agriculture
• surplus
• civilization

________ is fertile soil that is deposited in the floodplain.

• silt
• sand
• stylus
• cuneiform

The ________ on either side of the rivers was often the best place for farming because it was flat and full of fertile soil.

• floodplain
• prairie
• delta
• tundra

Mesopotamia had a ________ climate and received very little rainfall each year.

• semiarid
• tropical
• temperate
• subarctic

Due to the fact that floods and ________ were unpredictable, irrigation was important for farming.

• droughts
• tsunamis
• earthquakes
• volcanic eruptions

There was little stone and wood in Mesopotamia, so people used ________ to build houses.

• mud bricks and reeds
• palm branches
• caves
• snow

Mesopotamians were able to use their ________ grain to trade for the resources that they needed.

• surplus
• deficit
• spoiled
• stylus