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Ancient Egypt

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The world's longest river, 4000 miles, flowed northward to the Mediterranean Sea

a)

Amazon

b)

Nile

c)

Tigris

d)

Euphrates

2.

Fertile, fan-shaped farmland at the mouth of the Nile River

a)

plain

b)

gulf

c)

bay

d)

delta

3.

Fine, fertile mixture of soil and rocks deposited by the Nile River along the Nile Valley and Delta

a)

silt

b)

minerals

c)

dirt

d)

peat

4.

The city of Memphis was known as ...

a)

yellow land

b)

red land

c)

brown land

d)

black land

5.

A region of lower elevation in northern Egypt; fertile soil because of the delta

a)

Upper Egypt

b)

Middle Egypt

c)

Lower Egypt

d)

Cataract

6.

An area in Southern Egypt that is mountainous, where the Nile River begins

a)

Upper Egypt

b)

Lower Egypt

c)

Middle Egypt

d)

Ancient Egypt

7.

A plant whose stems are used to make a kind of paper that grew along the banks of the Nile River

a)

papyrus

b)

wheat

c)

barley

d)

rice

8.

A large body of water north of Egypt in which the Nile River flows into

a)

Red Sea

b)

Gulf of Tonkin

c)

Mediterranean Sea

d)

Black Sea

9.

The Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt the...

a)

Gift of the Nile

b)

Gift of a mile

c)

Gift of the pile

d)

Gift for awhile

10.

The Nile was considered the "taker of life" because ...

a)

earthquakes

b)

drought

c)

flooding

d)

tornadoes

11.

The Egyptians would control floodwaters using irrigation systems such as ...

a)

levees

b)

ditches

c)

canals

d)

nets

12.

A waterfall, there were six along the Nile River, these made travel along the Nile very difficult

a)

cliffs

b)

bends

c)

shadoofs

d)

cataracts

13.

Travel along the Nile River was made difficult due to the ...

a)

sharks

b)

cataracts

c)

crocodiles

d)

rough seas

14.

The Nile was considered the "giver of life" because ...

a)

water

b)

crocodiles

c)

crops

d)

insects

15.

The Egyptians were polytheistic and their chief god the god of the sun was named ...

a)

Jesus

b)

Ra

c)

Muhammad

d)

Shiva

16.

The Nile River flows in this direction.

a)

North

b)

South

c)

East

d)

West

17.

The desert was known as ...

a)

Pink Land

b)

Brown Land

c)

Black Land

d)

Red Land

18.

Records kept by scribes suggest that the growing season lasted between the months of ...

a)

January to March

b)

April to November

c)

May to September

d)

June to October

19.

The Egyptians had a belief in many gods including the sun god Ra, this is known as ...

a)

monotheism

b)

multitheism

c)

polytheism

d)

whatchamacallit