Unit 3 Vocab Quiz

What is the term for dangerous, fast-moving waters?

• Delta

• Shadoof

• Cataract

• Pyramid

What is a fan-shaped area of marshy land at a river's mouth called?

• Papyrus

• Delta

• Hieroglyphics

• Incense

What is a bucket attached to a long pole used to move water for irrigation?

• Shadoof

• Bureaucrat

• Pharaoh

• Dynasty

What is the name of the reed plant that grows along the Nile river and is used to make a paper-like material?

• Textiles

• Papyrus

• Savanna

• Embalming

What are ancient Egyptian writing systems using picture symbols called?

• Hieroglyphics

• Theocracy

• Envoy

• Incense

What is a line of rulers from one family known as?

• Bureaucrat

• Dynasty

• Pyramid

• Cataract

Who was an ancient Egyptian leader?

• Pharaoh

• Envoy

• Bureaucrat

• Shadoof

What is a government called in which the same person is the political and religious leader?

• Theocracy

• Dynasty

• Hieroglyphics

• Delta

What is the term for a government official?

• Bureaucrat

• Pharaoh

• Envoy

• Incense

What is the process of preserving dead bodies called?

• Embalming

• Textiles

• Papyrus

• Shadoof