Geography of Mesopotamia

What is the meaning of "Mesopotamia"?

• The land of the green
• The land of the brave
• The land between two rivers
• The land between two valleys

What two rivers played an important role in Ancient Mesopotamia?

• Tigris and Euphrates
• Tigris and Nile
• Euphrates and Nile
• Tigris and Jordan

What is a floodplain?

• the fine soil deposited by floodwaters
• the flat land bordering a river
• the flat land bordering a mountain
• a period of too much rainfall

A ____________________ climate has little rainfall and warm temperatures.

• arid
• semiarid
• tropical
• subarctic

What is a drought?

• period of too much snow
• period of too much rain
• period of too little rain
• period of too much wind

What is a surplus?

• having too much, or an excess of something
• having too little of something
• a math term

By about 6000 B.C., farmers built ________ to carry water from the rivers to their fields.

• tunnels
• sprinklers
• buckets
• canals

True or False:
Mesopotamians used irrigation canals to bring water to crops during droughts.

• True
• False

What building material did Mesopotamians mainly use to build structures?

• wood
• mud
• brick
• metal

Mesopotamia had few resources.  What did the people trade to get what they needed?

• Surplus of water
• Surplus of clothes
• Surplus of buildings
• Surplus of crops