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WorksheetsAncient Egypt and Nubia
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a cataract?
a)
a large waterfall; any strong flood or rush of water
b)
a surgery on your eyes
c)
a cat
d)
a type of rat
2.
What is a plain at the mouth of a river, that is formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water called?
a)
delta
b)
the part of the river
c)
????
d)
it is called eating
3.
what is silt?
a)
fine soil found on river bottoms
b)
a type of fabric
c)
when you are sad
d)
>_<
4.
Why couldn't people travel to Nubia by river?
a)
because of the cataracts
b)
because of robbers and bandits
c)
there were vicious animals
d)
it was sacred land to the gods
5.
What are somethings that Nubians traded?
a)
ebony wood, ivory from elephant tusks, ostrich feathers and eggs, and panther skin
b)
seashells, animals, rocks
c)
animals, cloth, art
d)
??
6.
The Egyptians and Nubians developed villages along....
a)
the delta of the Nile River
b)
Southern most Africa
c)
Egypt and Nubia
d)
America
7.
What is the worlds longest river?
a)
Nile
b)
Amazon
c)
Mississippi
d)
Delaware
8.
Which way does the Nile River flow?
a)
North
b)
South
c)
East
d)
West
9.
What is a pharaoh?
a)
the title of the kings of ancient Egypt
b)
a type of mythical beast
c)
the title for the sun
d)
an ancient word that meant ....
10.
What is a series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group called?
a)
Dynasty
b)
family tree
c)
ancestry
d)
history
11.
What is absoltue power?
a)
complete control over someone or something
b)
a math term that gives the opposite number on the opposite side in positive or negative numbers
c)
When some has, literally, absolute power
d)
???>_<??? too many questions
12.
What is someone who rules for a child until the child in old enough to rule?
a)
regent
b)
seargent
c)
corn
d)
short- term rule
13.
What were the three time periods of Egypt?
a)
The Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms
b)
The Old, Middle, and New Time periods
c)
Dynasty #1, 2, 3
d)
second, minute, hour
14.
What is afterlife?
a)
a life after death
b)
a system of traveling
c)
a way of worshiping the gods
d)
a type spiritual dance
15.
What is a dead body preserved in life like conditions called?
a)
mummy
b)
dead body
c)
Osiris
d)
pharaoh
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