Introduction to ArtificiaI Intelligence in Higher Education
Nile geography
1. Thursday, January 31, 2013
Silently sit down in your
Crocodile
seat and complete the
warm-up as soon as you Hippopotamus
enter the room. Ostrich
What are four different Falcon
animals that you think
may live in or around the Baboons
Nile River? Ibis
Jackal
2. Homework
1.Current Event 18 due
tomorrow:
Friday, February 1 st.
3. Agenda for Today
1.Assessments for people
who are less than level 16.
2.Go over the map of Egypt
3.Geography of the Nile
notes
4. Essential Question
What would a social
scientist from each of the
five themes of social
studies learn about Egypt?
5. Learning Target
I can…
Show how the Nile River
creates an environment that
promotes civilization in
Egypt.
Explain why the Nile River is
so important to life in Egypt.
6. Sinai Peninsula
Red Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Upper Egypt
Lower Egypt
Giza
Memphis
Aswan
Eastern Desert
Suez Canal
Sahara Desert
Nile River
Nile Delta
First Nile Cataract
Lake Nasser
7. Why is Egypt called the
Gift of the Nile?
The Nile River provides for Egypt in the following
ways:
Fertile soil
Water for drinking, cooking, and watering crops
Transportation
River plants and animals
9. How did the Nile make land in
the middle of a desert fertile?
Every
year, around
the same
date, the Nile
would flood
and cover the
fields along
its banks for
about four
months.
10. sediment
All rivers contain
something called
sediment.
Sediment is
decaying organic
material that
floats in the
water.
11. sediment
After the Nile’s flooding
ended and the river level
returned to normal
sediment would be left
behind in the fields along
its banks.
This sediment acted as a
natural fertilizer by
replacing the nutrients that
were sucked out of the soil
by the last season’s crops.
12. How did the Egyptians move
the water from the river?
They use irrigation
canals to get the water
from the river to their
crops.
To help with lifting the
water they used a
machine called a
shadoof.
13. Transportation
The Nile served as the
main transportation
route in Egypt.
Boats could sail from
the Nile delta in the
north to Aswan in the
south.
14. Why couldn’t they sail
further south than Aswan?
The southern part of the Nile
contains six cataracts that
prevent boats from sailing past
them.
15. What are cataracts?
Cataracts are areas of
the Nile that are very
shallow and rocky.
Some are
rapids, meaning the
water moves very
quickly and violently
through the rocky area.
17. River Plants
The most
important plant
that the Nile
provided to
Egypt was
papyrus.
18. The First Paper
The plant used to make the first paper is also called
papyrus. To make the paper, the inner stalks of the
plant were cut into narrow strips. The strips were
cut to the same length and placed side by side by
side in one layer. Another layer of strips was placed
crosswise on top to form a sheet. Papyrus makers
wet the sheet, pressed it flat, and dried it in the sun.
Sap from the plant glued the strips together. Pasted
side by side, the sheets formed a long strip that could
be rolled up.
20. What are some animals that
can be found near the Nile?
Crocodile
Hippopotamus
Ostrich
Falcon
Baboons
Ibis
Jackal
21. Assessment
On a sheet of lined
paper, completely answer the
following questions:
1. Why did civilization first develop in
the area that we call Egypt?
2. Why was the Nile River so
important to life in Egypt?
