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Study Guide
Geography
1.
Define the 5 Themes of Geography.
Movement: How people, goods and ideas move from one place to another.
Region: An area that has common characteristics
Location: Where a place can be found using absolute (Latitude and Longitude) or
Relative (relation from one place to another)
Human-Environment Interaction: How people interact with the environment
through adapting, modifying or damaging
Place: What you see through human characteristics and physical characteristics
2. What does Mesopotamia mean?
The land between two rivers
3. Why is the Mesopotamian region also called the Fertile Crescent?
Mesopotamia is also called the Fertile Crescent because it is in the shape of a
crescent moon and the land within this area is very fertile.
4. Where is the Nile River and what body of water does if flow into?
The Nile River is in the northeast region of Africa. It flows north into the
Mediterranean Sea.
5. What natural barriers helped isolate Ancient Egypt and protect it from attacks?
Sahara (desert)
Cataracts
6. What mountain range has the tallest mountain in the world?
Himalayas
7. What physical feature had the greatest impact on the development of ancient
civilizations.
Rivers:
China: Yellow River
Indus Valley: Indus River
Mesopotamia: Euphrates and Tigris
Ancient Egypt: Nile
8. What physical feature dominates approximately 75% of Greece’s landscape?
Mountains and hills
9. Identify the location of the Inca, Aztec and Maya civilizations.
Inca: Western side of South America
Aztec: Southern Mexico (Central America)
Maya: Yucatan Peninsula (Central America)
10. Which Ancient American civilization (Inca, Aztec or Maya) was most likely to
use terrace farming and why?
The Inca civilization because it was located in the Andes mountains. The terraces
would have been needed to keep the crops from sliding down the mountainside.
Identify or answer the following about the four river civilizations we studied in
class:
1. List the four River Valley Civilizations:
a.
b.
c.
d.
2.
Identify the location of each civilization on a map.
a.
3.
Nile
What was the nickname of the Yellow (Huang He) River?
a.
6.
See () in #1
Which river had predictable yearly flooding and was considered a “gift”?
a.
5.
Use maps from notebook
Identify the river or rivers that helped each civilization emerge (start)
a.
4.
Ancient China (Yellow River)
Indus Valley (Indus River)
Mesopotamia (Euphrates and Tigris)
Ancient Egypt (Nile)
China’s Sorrow
Which river had unpredictable flooding because of summer monsoons?
a.
Indus