6th Grade 2.1 Review

Climate type marked by hot summers and limited rainfall

• silt

• arid

• drought

• currents

Long period of little or no rainfall when it is difficult to grow crops

• silt

• arid

• drought

• currents

Fine, fertile soil created by rivers and deposited on nearby lands

• Mesopotamia

• floodplain

• silt

• arid

Flat land bordering the banks of a river

• swell

• currents

• floodplain

• surplus

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

• Mesopotamia

• floodplain

• silt

• arid

Watering dry land by using ditches, pipes, or streams

• currents

• swell

• irrigation

• surplus

Increase in size or volume

• currents

• swell

• irrigation

• surplus

Concentrated flowing of water

• silt

• arid

• swell

• current

Items that Mesopotamians traded for were stone, wood, copper, ebony.....

• grain and dates

• clean water and tools

• gold, ivory, and precious stones

• farm animals and wheat

The flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were caused by snow melting in

• the Fertile Crescent

• Turkey and Kurdistan

• Assyria and Persia

• Egypt and Israel