Review of Sixth Grade Social Studies

What is technology?

The modern country that Sumerian ruins are located in is what?

Many nations of the Middle East have huge profits from this resource.

Islam, Christianity, and Judaism originated in what region of the world?

What are the Intermediate Directions?

North, South, East, and West are referred to as what?

The word that best describes water supplies in the Middle East is what?

The climate of most of the Middle East can be described as ..............

To determine longitude you need to......

This religion is based on the the teaching of Muhammad.

How do you determine latitude?

N. America, S. America, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, Australia are what?

What did the Nile, Indus, Tigris-Euphrates, and the Huang Ho River Valleys have in common?

The name of a government where the citizens make the laws and choose the leaders is what?

What is the highest mountain in the world?

What belief was central to Egyptian life and religion?

Cuneiform was the Sumerian system of.....

The Nile provided Egyptians with these three things.....

Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates are all what?

What do teachings of Hinduism and Buddhism have in common?

What was an important invention that improved land transportation for the Sumerians?

What are the five oceans?

This type of government gets power by force

What are the two rivers of Sumer?

What were tombs for Pharaohs called?

Who are your favorite 6th grade social studies teachers?

Whose tomb did Howard Carter find completely intact?

The semi-dry plains of the Middle East are called what?

The longest river in the world is the ..........

Which system of government does a ruler inherit his or her power?

What is Polytheism?

An example of absolute location is...

An area with certain shared characteristics or certain things in common is called a

Why did early civilizations begin in river valleys?

When the supply of an item is high, and the demand is low, what will a producer do to the price

In order to have afterlife, what had to be done to an Egyptian's body?

What continent is completely in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres?

Monotheism is the the belief in what ?

Before farming allowed people to settle, people lived in ________ tribes

Egypt is considered part of what?