Vocab Test

Afterlife is

• Life after death

• Death after life

• Life after life

• Eternal life

A cataract is

• A small waterfall

• A large waterfall

• A waterfall

• A catapult

pharaoh

• to smile broadly so that the teeth are showing

• a king of ancient Egypt

• wearing no clothing or covering; naked

• to complain in a low voice

the place at the mouth of a river where it splits into several streams to form an area shaped like a triangle

• regent
• silt
• delta

a dead body preserved in lifelike condition

• afterlife
• artisan
• mummy

a kind of picture writing in which some pictures stand for ideas or things and others stand for sounds

• silt
• hieroglyph
• papyrus

an early form of paper made from a reedlike plant found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta

• papyrus
• artisan
• silt

embalm

• preserve a dead body
• a supernatural being worshipped as controlling the world
• a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
• a body that is embalmed, dried, and wrapped for burial

a large stone structure built as a tomb for ancient Egyptian pharaohs

• mummy

• mastaba

• pyramid

• dynasty

What is the triangle-shaped area at the mouth of the Nile River that has really fertile soil? 

• Nile River Delta
• Sahara Delta
• Mediterranean Delta
• Mississippi River Delta