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WorksheetsEgypt Vocabulary chap 2 Sections 1 & 2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a rock filled rapid in a river which makes the river non-navigable
a)
cliff
b)
waterfall
c)
delta
d)
cataract
2.
What is the area called where the Nile River spreads out to empty into the Mediterranean Sea?
a)
river's edge
b)
delta
c)
peninsula
d)
Giza
3.
What is a reed plant from Egypt that is used for baskets, sandals, river rafts and paper?
a)
papyrus
b)
wheat
c)
limestone
d)
Gypsum
4.
Picture symbols and sound symbols that create to form the Egyptian alphabet.
a)
Latin
b)
cueniform
c)
hieroglyphics
d)
pictographs
5.
What is it called when members of a ruling family pass down power from grandfather to father to grandson?
a)
clan
b)
dynasty
c)
ancestor
d)
successor
6.
The name for an Egyptian king,
a)
emperor
b)
zar
c)
Lord
d)
pharaoh
7.
A god or goddess
a)
Zeus
b)
pharaoh
c)
deity
d)
divinity
8.
The art and science of preserving human remains for preservation
a)
surgery
b)
amputation
c)
enbalming
d)
mutalation
9.
A wrapped body in long strips of linen
a)
mummy
b)
Frankenstein
c)
mannequin
d)
corpse
10.
What are mountainlike tombs of stone?
a)
temples
b)
Ziggurats
c)
hieroglyphics
d)
pyramids
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