Social Vocabulary Quiz

What is a city-state?

What is the Euphrates river?

What is irrigation?

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• Between two rivers.

• Land of the rising sun.

• A desert region.

• A mountainous area.

What is silt?

• Soil or sediment mixed in suspension with water.

• A type of rock.

• A kind of plant.

• A method of irrigation.

What is Sumer?

• An ancient civilization which lived in Mesopotamia.

• A type of crop.

• A modern city.

• A river in Asia.

What is the Tigris River?

• A river located in southwest Asia that flowed through Mesopotamia.

• A river in North America.

• A river known for its speed.

• A river that is a tributary of the Nile.