Ancient Egypt:
1. Why did Egyptians treasure scarabs?
2. The ancient Egyptians put green stone scarab beetles into the coffins
of important people along with the mummified bodies. True/false?
3. How old are the Pyramids?
4. What does the shape of the Pyramid represent?
5. How were corpses mummified?
Natural world:
1. Name the world's largest reef system?
2. The horn of a rhinoceros is made of bone. True/false?
3.Ayers Rock in Australia is also known as what?
4. The Dead Sea is 8.6 times more salty than the ocean.True/false?
5. What state of the USA is the Grand Canyon located in?
[Answers]
Ancient Egypt:
Ancient Egypt |
1. Scarabs are a kind of beetles which collect dung and roll them
into little balls. To the Egyptians these dung balls looked like the
life-giving Sun, so they hoped that scarabs would bring them long life.
2. True.
3. The first step pyramid was built between 2630 and 2511 BC. Before
then people were buried under flat-topped mounds called ‘Mastabas’ and
in pyramids with stepped sides. The last pyramid was built about 1530
BC.
4. It represents the rays of the Sun. The ancient Egyptians believed
that the dead Pharaohs travelled through the sky with the Sun each day.
5. Making a mummy was a complicated and expensive process. First soft
internal organs were removed and some parts were preserved. Then the
entire body was packed in chemicals and left to dry out. Finally it was
wrapped in resin-soaked linen bandages and placed in beautifully
decorated coffins with the preserved organs, jewellery and many other
valuable items.
Natural world:
1. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
2. False. It is made of keratin.
3. Ayers Rock of Australia is also called Uluru.
4. True.
5. In Arizona |