Be able to locate the following features on the map below:
1 Nile River, 2 Red Sea, 3 Sinai Peninsula, 4 Mediterranean Sea, 5 Nile Delta, draw a
dashed line for the Suez Canal, and label Upper and Lower Egypt (see 278-279).
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Which continent is Egypt located on?
Africa
What is the capital of Egypt?
Cairo
What is a Delta?
A triangle-shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river.
What type of climate does most of the region have?
Desert
What are some major physical features of Egypt? (Look up more for bonus)
Nile Delta, Nile Valley, Sinai Peninsula, Sahara (Western Desert and Eastern Desert)
Identify Egypt on the map below
What is one way that the environment affects people in northern Africa?
Very few people live there because it is very dry.
What is one way that people affect the environment in Egypt?
Negative: The Aswan High Dam traps silt so now farmers must use fertilizer.
Positive: The Aswan High Dam controls flooding along the Nile.
What are some of Egypt’s major resources? (Look up more for bonus)
Oil, natural gas, and coal. (Iron ore, minerals, and the Nile is largest resource of all.)
What is the narrow waterway that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea?
Suez Canal
What were some geographical features that protected Egypt from invasion?
To the West: A desert that couldn’t be crossed. To the North: The Mediterranean Sea. To the
East: The Red Sea. To the South: The Cataracts in the Nile.
What was a similarity between early Mesopotamia and early Egypt?
Both civilizations settled along a river that floods.
Both rivers flooded and left behind fertile silt for good farming.
Both of them used irrigation to create a food surplus.
Bonus
Label the 5 countries along the northern border of the African continent map.
What do they call the nomadic people that live in the Sahara desert?