Grade 6 Topic 7 Vocabulary

Fill in the blank: A place, usually in a desert, where water can be found is called an _______.

• oasis

• canyon

• dune

• mesa

Fill in the blank: Light, fertile soil that yields bountiful grain crops is called _______.

• loess

• clay

• peat

• sand

Fill in the blank: A stream or river that feeds into a larger stream, river, or lake is called a _______.

• tributary

• delta

• estuary

• reservoir

Fill in the blank: One who moves from place to place with no permanent home is called a _______.

• nomad

• tenant

• citizen

• settler

Fill in the blank: A region in the Huang He River valley, where Chinese civilization began, is called the _______.

• North China Plain

• Yangtze Delta

• Gobi Desert

• Tibetan Plateau

Fill in the blank: To set apart from other people or things is called _______.

• isolation

• celebration

• integration

• expansion

Fill in the blank: A stone-and-earth wall about 1,500 miles long, first built during the Qin dynasty to defend China’s northern boundary, is called the _______.

• Great Wall

• Berlin Wall

• Hadrian's Wall

• Wailing Wall

Fill in the blank: Able to live forever is to be _______.

• immortal

• fragile

• mortal

• ancient

Fill in the blank: The first emperor to rule a united China, from 221 to 210 B.C.E., was _______.

• Qin Shi Huangdi

• Liu Bang

• Wu Zetian

• Kublai Khan

Fill in the blank: A person who works for a government is called a _______.

• civil servant

• merchant

• artist

• engineer