Geography of Ancient Egypt Quiz

What are the sources of the Nile River?

• The white Nile and the blue Nile

• The Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers

• The East Nile and the South Nile

What forms the Lower Egypt region?

• The Mediterranean Sea

• The Nile Delta

• The Persian Gulf

Into which body of water does the Nile River empty into?

• The Nile Delta

• The Mediterranean Sea

• The Atlantic Ocean

The Nile River flows in which direction?

• North to South

• West to East

• South to North

Where is Upper Egypt located?

• In the North

• In the South

• In the East

Where is Lower Egypt located?

• In the North

• In the South

• In the East

What were the regions of Upper and Lower Egypt based on?

• The role the Eastern and Western deserts played on the Nile.

• The flow of the Nile River.

• The Pharaohs determined these locations.

What is a cataract?

• A pact between two Egyptians

• A mountain range

• A group of rocky rapids

Why was Egyptian agriculture dependent on the Nile River?

• gold

• silt

• rocks

Why could the Nile River be considered harmful?

• it deposited silt

• The banks flooded yearly or didn't flood at all