SOL Review 2'1, 2'4

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Egypt Jeopardy

• SOL Review (2.1, 2.4)
• Hosted
• by
• Mrs. Grant

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Geography
Contributions
Inventions
Misc.
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What is Africa?
Egypt is located in the northern part of this
continent.

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What is contribution (B)?

• A _________ is giving or
• doing something positive.
• invention
• contribution
• problem
• architecture

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What is the sun(solar calendar)?
The Ancient Chinese developed a calendar based on
the moon. The Ancient Egyptians invented a
calendar based on the ______.

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What are fished, farmed, and irrigated land (F)?
The three things the Egyptian people did to
survive F. fished, farmed, irrigated land G.
fished, hunted, gathered H. farmed,
relaxed, farmed J. irrigated land,
fished, hunted

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What is the Nile River?
The longest river in the world.

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What is papyrus?
Invention Clues Egyptian contribution Kind of
paper Used for hieroglyphics

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What are hieroglyphics (H)?
A picture writing used by the Ancient
Egyptians. F. character writing G. cartoons
H. hieroglyphics J. architecture

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Who was King Tut, the Boy King?
He became a pharaoh when he was just nine years
old. He was a kind pharaoh. A solid gold mask was
found in his tomb.

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What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea?
Egypt is bordered by these two seas.

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What is a clock?

• Most people wear this Egyptian
• invention on their wrist so they
• are not late.
• silkworm
• ice cream
• freckle
• clock

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What are pyramids?
A form of architecture where pharaohs and
their queens were buried.

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What is all of the above (D)?

• People lived near the Nile
• River because
• the flooding left behind rich,
• fertile mud to grow crops.
• B. they used it for transportation
• and trade.
• C. it provided fish to eat and water
• to drink.
• D. all of the above.

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What is the Nile River?
Egypt is the gift of the ______________ because
it helped Ancient Egyptians in so many ways.

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What is the 365 day calendar?
An invention that is used today. The U.S. starts
theirs in January. The Ancient Egyptians started
theirs in June with the flooding of the Nile.

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What is a triangular prism ( C )?

• A pyramid looks more like what
• polygon
• cube
• sphere
• triangular prism
• cylinder

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What is the Sphinx?
This structure was built to guard the pyramids.
It has a lions body and a mans head.

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What are deserts ( C )?

• Egypts climate is very hot and
• dry. It is made up of many
• forests
• glaciers
• deserts
• rainforest

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What are hieroglyphics?

Egyptian language written in pictures carved or
painted on walls and tombs

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What is an original idea (A)?

• An invention is
• an original idea.
• someone elses idea.
• a map of a pyramid.
• an ancient thing.

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What is an Egyptian (B)?

• A person from Egypt is called
• an
• American
• Egyptian
• Indian
• Chinese

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