Unit 3: Impact of Geography - Egyptian Geography

Question 1

What is an extended period of little to no rain?

Accepted Answer

drought

Question 2

What is a fertile place in the desert due to the presence of water?

Accepted Answer

oasis

Question 3

What area of high, flat land is the source of the Blue Nile River?

Accepted Answer

plateau, highland

Question 4

What is the longest river in the world?

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 5

The total amount of a flourishing agricultural crop that has been grown or produced is called what?

Accepted Answer

yield

Question 6

What do you call the predictable annual flooding of the Nile River?

Accepted Answer

inundation

Question 7

Deserts are recognized for what climate of very little moisture and hot temperatures?

Accepted Answer

arid

Question 8

What countries does the Nile and its tributaries (White Nile and Blue Nile) flow through?

Accepted Answer

South Sudan, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Uganda

Question 9

What bodies of water border Africa?

Accepted Answer

Atlantic & Indian Oceans and Mediterranean & Red Seas

Question 10

What continent do we find the Nile River on?

Accepted Answer

Africa

Question 11

When crops grow well due to fertile conditions, they are doing what?

Accepted Answer

flourishing

Question 12

What four deserts are found in north-eastern Egypt near the Nile?

Accepted Answer

Arabian, Libyan, Nubian and Sahara Deserts

Question 13

What is a river reed that flourishes in the Nile for which the Egyptians used to make paper?

Accepted Answer

papyrus

Question 14

What "main" direction does the Nile River flow from its source in east-central Africa?

Accepted Answer

North

Question 15

The triangular shape of deposited soil at the Nile's mouth (near the Mediterranean) is what?

Accepted Answer

delta

Question 16

The annual inundation of the Nile enriched the soil with what that it left behind?

Accepted Answer

silt

Question 17

When the yield of a crop has produced more than what a civilization needs?

Accepted Answer

surplus

Question 18

What is a smaller stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river?

Accepted Answer

tributary

Question 19

In addition to deserts that surrounded it, Egypt was protected by what "rapids or waterfalls?"

Accepted Answer

cataracts

Questions 19