Africa

Match the term with its description.

• a deep narrow valley with steep sides

• plateau

• low land between hills or mountains

• canyon

• a flat or level area of land

• valley

• a landform that rises higher than a hill

• mountain

• a highland plain

• plain

A piece of land built up over many years by the deposit of soil at the mouth of the river is called a ______.

• mouth

• source

• delta

• cataracts

Match the questions with their answers.

• famine

• What is a period of serious shortage of food called?

• Nile

• What is the world's longest river?

• Great Pyramid

• What does the word "Pharaoh" mean?

• great house

• What is the largest of the pyramids still standing today?

• Sahara

• What is the world's largest desert?

Name a Bible character who became a vizier in Egypt.

• Moses

• Aaron

• Joshua

• Joseph

What irrigation device did the Egyptians use?

• sprinklers

• shadoof

• ditches

• pipes

What monument has the head of a man and the body, legs and paws of a lion and stands near the pyramids?

• Sphinx

• obelisk

• mummy

• hieroglyphics

The "Gift of the Nile" is another name for ________.

• Egypt

• Sudan

• Congo

• cataracts

The king who united Upper and Lower Egypt was __________.

• King Tut

• King Menes

• King Khufu

• King Akhenaton

A rock bed piled high in a river creating small waterfalls

• obelisk

• vizier

• cataracts

• papyrus

Match the following

• a time of serious shortage of food

• famine

• world's first paper like material

• papyrus

• title given to an Egyptian king

• pharaoh

• body wrapped and preserved for eternity

• scribe

• secretary to the ruler in a court

• mummy