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

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

• True
• False

The fine soil deposited by rivers is called ___________.

• dirt
• mud
• sand
• silt

an area of fertile land where the first civilization developed

• Fertile Crescent

• Mesopotamia

• civilization

• city-state

an independent city and its surrounding farmland

• city-state

• civilization

• Mesopotamia

• Fertile Crescent

What positive effect did rivers have on people?

• provided fertile soil
• killed crops
• they were calming 
• were pretty to look at

What modern day country is Mesopotamia in?

• India
• Egypt
• China
• Iraq

• Mesopotamia is letter B.

• Mesopotamia is letter C.

• Mesopotamia is letter A.

Why was Mesopotamia also called the Fertile Crescent?

• It was a crescent cookie
• good water
• had rich soil and was shaped as a crescent
• it was in Iraq