WorksheetsGeography of Mesopotamia
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the meaning of "Mesopotamia"?
a)
The land of the green
b)
The land of the brave
c)
The land between two rivers
d)
The land between two valleys
2.
What two rivers played an important role in Ancient Mesopotamia?
a)
Tigris and Euphrates
b)
Tigris and Nile
c)
Euphrates and Nile
d)
Tigris and Jordan
3.
What is a floodplain?
a)
the fine soil deposited by floodwaters
b)
the flat land bordering a river
c)
the flat land bordering a mountain
d)
a period of too much rainfall
4.
A ____________________ climate has little rainfall and warm temperatures.
a)
arid
b)
semiarid
c)
tropical
d)
subarctic
5.
What is a drought?
a)
period of too much snow
b)
period of too much rain
c)
period of too little rain
d)
period of too much wind
6.
What is a surplus?
a)
having too much, or an excess of something
b)
having too little of something
c)
a math term
7.
By about 6000 B.C., farmers built ________ to carry water from the rivers to their fields.
a)
tunnels
b)
sprinklers
c)
buckets
d)
canals
8.
True or False:
Mesopotamians used irrigation canals to bring water to crops during droughts.
Mesopotamians used irrigation canals to bring water to crops during droughts.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
What building material did Mesopotamians mainly use to build structures?
a)
wood
b)
mud
c)
brick
d)
metal
10.
Mesopotamia had few resources. What did the people trade to get what they needed?
a)
Surplus of water
b)
Surplus of clothes
c)
Surplus of buildings
d)
Surplus of crops
11.
The fine soil deposited by rivers is called ___________.
a)
dirt
b)
mud
c)
sand
d)
silt
12.
True or False:
The yearly flood was predictable.
The yearly flood was predictable.
a)
True
b)
False
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