In your Bell work folder- 9/25 Write 2 things you know about Egypt. Happy Monday to you! In your Bell work folder- 9/25 Write 2 things you know about Egypt.

Label Egypt on your World map (p1 of comp book) Success Criteria: Locate and discuss Egypt and the Nile River. EQ: How does geography effect the way people live?

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2. Use a shade of green to highlight the fertile areas along the Nile 18 Directions: 1. Label the Nile River 2. Use a shade of green to highlight the fertile areas along the Nile 3. Use a shade of yellow to highlight the Sahara Desert 4. Label the major cities along the Nile 5. Draw a line to represent the 6 cataracts 6. Label Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, Nubia and Kush

Ancient Egypt and the kingdom of Kush would be located in the modern countries of Egypt and ____________. - 6.15 Iraq Iran Libya Sudan

Which letter represents the Red Sea? – 6.15 X Z Y S Y X S Z

Which letter represents the Mediterranean Sea? – 6.15 X Z Y S Y X S Z

Which letter represents Lower Egypt? – 6.15 X Z Y S Y X S Z

Which letter represents Upper Egypt? – 6.15 X Z Y S Y X S Z

6. Which letter represents the Nile River? – 6.15 X Y S Y S X

Y X What do letters “X” and “Y” represent? – 6.15 a. Plains Peninsulas Deserts Savannahs Y X

THE LIFE BLOOD P19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOtoHidFy8k

Text book p 100-102 What is a Delta. Describe the Nile Delta Text book p 100-102 What is a Delta? Describe the Nile Delta. What is a cataract?

In your pods 1. How did the floods of the Nile River differ from the floods of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia? 2. How might Egypt’s natural defenses, the Sahara and the Nile’s cataracts also act as limitations? 3. Why is the Nile the most important physical feature in Egypt?