Geography and the Environment (Sheet 1)

Question 1

Hapy

Answer 1

God who symbolizes fertility and life-giving power of the Nile River brought about through the river’s annual inundation

Question 2

Ta-Shemu

Answer 2

Upper Egypt

Question 3

Ta-Mehu

Answer 3

Lower Egypt

Question 4

Sema-Tawy

Answer 4

Unification of the Two Lands

Question 5

Kemet

Answer 5

The Black Land

Question 6

Desheret

Answer 6

The Red Land

Question 7

Akhet

Answer 7

season of flooding/inundation

Question 8

Peret

Answer 8

season of plowing/planting

Question 9

shomu

Answer 9

season of harvest/”summer”

Question 10

White Nile

Answer 10

main branch of the Nile which flows out of the drainage basin of the central African lakes

Question 11

Blue Nile

Answer 11

Nile tributary which drains from the Ethiopian highlands and enters the main Nile at the modern city of Khartoum in the Sudan

Question 12

Cataracts

Answer 12

A series of 6 river cataracts which interrupt the northward flow of the Nile before it reaches Egypt. They were created by extensive bends of hard metamorphic rock which river does not cut through easily. The northernmost Cataract (First Cataract) marks the southernmost frontier of Egypt.

Question 13

Inundation

Answer 13

Season during which the Nile overflowed its banks in Egypt and deposit alluvia mud on fields

Question 14

Nilometers

Answer 14

Measuring devices set up throughout the Nile to measure water heights during the inundation

Question 15

Turtlebacks/Geziras

Answer 15

Gravely hills which rise above the level of Inundation in the Delta region