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WorksheetsSocial Studies 9 Unit 1 & 2 Test
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 17mins
1. What is the Longest River in the World?
Amazon River
Mississippi River
South Saskatchewan River
Nile River
Why did most Egyptians live in the crowded Nile villages?
Because they could not live in the dessert and had to live near the Nile
Because the government forced them to
They had to live with their families
So they could swim in the Nile
How did the Egyptians carry Nile water into the desert?
They carried it in buckets
They Drove Trucks
They built irrigation and canal systems
They ran rubber hoses through the dessert
What natural barriers protect Egypt from invaders?
Deserts
The Red and Mediterranean Seas
The Waterfalss and Rapids of the Nile
All the Above
The letter A.D. represents:
Cheese Bagels
Before Christ
After Death
Anno Domini
The letters B.C.E. represent:
Time after the discovery of human life
Before Christ
Before Common Era
Baptisatus Creatious Ecumino
What is the difference between prehistory and history?
The birth of Christ
Written Records
The ica age
Discovery of Human Bones
Archeologist study…
Ecofacts
Artifacts
Preserved bodies, bones and sites
All the Above
Prehistory is the period in which people did not produce __________ records.
Bronze
Printed
Written
Stone
Why was the Nile flooding its banks every July important for the Egyptians?
To clean out the garbage
To fill swimming pools
To soak the soil and leave behind nutrient rich silt
To provide water to the pyramids
Who wrote On the Origins of Species?
JK Rowling
Charles Ludwig
Charles Darwin
Dave Johnson
What is a primary source?
An original record
A record of a person, event, or moment from later
A retelling of a story
All the above
What is a secondary source?
An original record
A record of a person, event, or moment from later on
Your second most important source
All of the above
The Egyptians Religious Beliefs reflected the importance of
Owning Property
Nautre in thier Lives
Working
Owning Material
The most important Egyptian god was
The Sun God (Amon-Re)
House God
Tree God
Village God
1. Egyptians believed that different gods controlled
The Forces of Nature (bad & good crops/high & low floods)
Time
Peasent Farmers
The building of pyramids
How did Egyptians Preserves dead bodies?
Freezing Them
Throwing them in the Nile
Burying them in snow
Mummification
What did Egyptians believe about the afterlife?
They did not believe in an afterlife
You were happy, healthy, young, well-fed and busy with activities
You were forced to work hard labor
It was an awful place
Where are upper and lower Egypt located?
Upper in the south and lower in the north
Lower in the south and upper in the north
Lower is low and upper is up
Lower is west and upper is east
What happened to lower and upper Egypt in 3100BC
They were separated
They went to war
They were unified into one Kingdom by Menes
Nothing happened
What was the role of a Pharaoh?
Control people’s lives (God)
Be the source of all law
Own all land, water and resources
All of the above
Why were Pyramids built
To act as homes for Pharaohs
To house government offices
To act as a recreation center
To act as tombs and spirit homes for Pharaohs after they die
Why were thousands of laborer’s needed to build pyramids?
They were massive
They used heavy boulders and stones
They took many years to build
All the Above
What was unique about Queen Hatshepsut?
She was tall
She was the first woman ruler known to history
She was from a poor family
She never married
When schools were first established in Ancient Egypt, what did students learn?
Reading & Writing
Religious Ceremonies & Rituals
Arithmetic (Math)
All the Above
What did scribes do?
Kept Records in Writing
Painted Pictures
Built Furniture
Traded Grains
What advances in astronomy did the Egyptians make?
Discovered Earth
Found the Moon
Plotted the course of Stars & Planets
Invented the telescope
What medical discoveries did the Ancient Egyptians make?
Invented Antibiotics
Performed the First Surgeries
Heart Transplant
Limb Transplant
What is True About the Delta?
Triangle Shaped Wetland
At the End of the Nile River
Empties into the Mediterranean Sea
All the Above
Where was the Egypt Not Protected from Invasion?
The Mediterranean Sea
The Nile River
From Behind
The Sinai Peninsula
