Social Studies World Cultures and Geography Houghton Mifflin Unit Resources Organized for the Way You Teach ■ Reading Skills and Strategies Support ■ Vocabulary Practice Unit 5 ■ Social Studies Skills Support ■ Map and Graph Practice Includes: Unit 5: North Africa and Southwest Asia Unit 5 Almanac Map Practice 119 Unit 5 Data File Practice 120 Chapter 15: North Africa and Southwest Asia: Land and History Lesson 1 Reading Skill and Strategy 121 Lesson 1 Vocabulary/Study Guide 122 Skillbuilder: Compare Climate and Vegetation Maps 123 Lesson 2 Reading Skill and Strategy 124 Lesson 2 Vocabulary/Study Guide 125 Lesson 3 Reading Skill and Strategy 126 Lesson 3 Vocabulary/Study Guide 127 Lesson 4 Reading Skill and Strategy 128 Lesson 4 Vocabulary/Study Guide 129 Lesson 5 Reading Skill and Strategy 130 Lesson 5 Vocabulary/Study Guide 131 Chapter 16: North Africa and Southwest Asia Today Lesson 1 Reading Skill and Strategy 132 Lesson 1 Vocabulary/Study Guide 133 Lesson 2 Reading Skill and Strategy 134 Lesson 2 Vocabulary/Study Guide 135 Skillbuilder: Read a Historical Map 136 Lesson 3 Reading Skill and Strategy 137 Lesson 3 Vocabulary/Study Guide 138 Lesson 4 Reading Skill and Strategy 139 Lesson 4 Vocabulary/Study Guide 140 Lesson 5 Reading Skill and Strategy 141 Lesson 5 Vocabulary/Study Guide 142 For more support, see the Grade Level Resources folder.
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■ Reading Skills and Strategies Support■ Vocabulary Practice
Unit 5
■ Social Studies Skills Support ■ Map and Graph Practice
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Unit 5: North Africa andSouthwest Asia
Unit 5 Almanac Map Practice 119
Unit 5 Data File Practice 120
Chapter 15: North Africa andSouthwest Asia: Land and History
Practice1. Complete the graph that compares information about the literacy rate
and doctors per 100,000 people in several countries in North Africaand Southwest Asia. Find the information in the Data File of your texton pages 414–417.
2. What conclusions can you draw based upon the literacy rate of a
country and the number of doctors per 100,000 people?
3. Which country is the exception to your conclusion about therelationship between literacy rate and doctors per 100,000 people?Why do you think this exception occurs?
Application4. Use the back of this page to create a similar bar graph that compares
different countries than the ones already studied. When you are finished, compare the new graph with the old one. Do you want to change any of the conclusions you drew based on the first graph? Join a small group, and compare results. How have the new graphs affected your views?
Reading Skill and StrategyReading Skill: Main Idea and DetailsThis skill helps you understand ideas by seeing how they are related.Read “Rivers and Deserts.” Write the details that support the main idea.
Reading Strategy: Monitor and Clarify5. Read “Rivers and Deserts.” Which sentence best explains how rivers
create fertile soil? Put a checkmark (√) next to your answer.
Much of the soil in North Africa and Southwest Asia has lots ofsalt or sand.
Hunter-gatherers became farmers when they learned to raisetheir own food.
When rivers flood, they leave behind fertile soil from other places.
6. What can you learn from studying the photographs on page 422? Put a checkmark (√) next to your answer.
Vocabulary and Study GuideVocabularyIf the statement is true, write true on the line. If it is false, change theunderlined word or words to make it true.
1. Fertile soil provides nutrients that plants need to grow.
2. For 99 percent of the time human beings have been on Earth,they have been farmers.
3. The process of bringing water to dry land is called irrigation.
Study Guide
The names of important bodies of water in North Africa and SouthwestAsia are listed below. Write each one in the correct blank.
Dead Sea Mediterranean Sea Red Sea Euphrates River Nile River Tigris RiverPersian Gulf
4. This river flows from east central Africa to the Mediterranean in
northeast Egypt. This river is called the .
5. These two rivers flow from Turkey to the southeast into the Persian
Gulf. The names of these rivers are the and
the .
6. This sea is the largest body of water in the region of North Africa and
Southwest Asia. This sea is the .
7. This “colorful” sea has long been an important trade route in the
region. The name of this sea is the .
8. This salty lake in Israel is the lowest place on Earth. Its name is the
.
9. This body of water is in the middle of the oil-producing area of
Reading Skill and StrategyReading Skill: Problem and SolutionThis skill helps you describe a problem a group of people faced andunderstand how they resolved it.
1. Read “The Fertile Crescent.” Write two problems the ancientSumerians faced in the boxes on the left. In the boxes on the right, tellhow building city-states solved these problems.
Reading Strategy: Monitor and Clarify2. Read “The Class System.” In which class were Mesopotamian
workers, such as farmers? Put a checkmark (√) next to your answer.
6. name given to Mesopotamia thatdescribes its shape and rich soil
7. the first people to live inMesopotamia
8. a city and the areas it controls
9. most important gods of Mesopotamia
10. people who specialized in a craft, such as pottery
A. city-state
B. Enlil and Utu
C. Fertile Crescent
D. pictographs
E. Sumerians
F. skilled workers
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Reading Skill and StrategyReading Skill: Draw ConclusionsThis skill helps you figure out things the writer does not state directly.
Read “Ancient Egypt and the Nile.” Read the facts in the small boxesbelow. Use the facts to complete the conclusion in the large box about the Nile River and Egypt’s development.
Reading Strategy: Monitor and Clarify2. To review information about pyramids, you should reread the lesson
section titled
.
3. On the lines below, write one question you had after you finishedreading.
The Nile gaveEgypt resourcesfor makingbuilding materialsand paper.
1.
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Vocabulary and Study GuideVocabularyMatch the definition in the second column with the word in the firstcolumn. Write the correct letter on the line.
Study GuideBelow are some general statements about ancient Egypt. Read eachstatement. Then write three details from the section that support thestatement.
5. The Nile River was of great use to the people of ancient Egypt.
A.
B.
C.
6. Despite challenges, the people of ancient Egypt were great builders.
Reading Skill and StrategyReading Skill: CategorizeThis skill helps you understand and remember what you have read byorganizing facts into related groups, or categories.
1. Read Lesson 4. Categorize the words below by writing them on theline next to the religion that best matches them. Use the categoryOther for words that do not fit into the rest of the categories. Writethese words: Abraham, Ancient Egyptians, Gospels, Jesus, Muslim,polytheism, Qur’an, Yahweh.
Reading Strategy: Monitor and Clarify2. If you wanted to remember Muslim beliefs, which section would
you reread?
3. Explain how to locate the answer to this review question: What roledid Jesus’ disciples play in establishing Christianity?
Muhammad died without choosing someoneto finish his work.
4.
Muslims collected and translated importantbooks and papers.
The caliphs conquered Christian Spain.
7.
8.
Effect
3.
Islamic ideas spread.
5.
6.
Suleiman I is called “The Lawgiver” byMuslims.
Sinan transformed Christian Constantinopleinto an Islamic capital.
The caliphs created a vasttrading system.
Knowledge of the ancientworld was preserved.
Muhammad’s associateselected a caliph.
The Ottomans madeConstantinople their capital.
The caliphs introducedIslamic culture to Spain.
Suleiman I established asystem of laws throughoutthe Ottoman Empire.
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Reading Skill and StrategyReading Skill: SequenceThis skill helps you understand the order in which events happened.
1. Read “Wars in the Region.” Write major events from the section in the order in which they occurred.
Reading Strategy: Predict and Infer2. You read on page 453 that Saddam Hussein was an “absolute ruler.”
You also read that even though Iraq lost the Persian Gulf War,Hussein remained in power. Look at the photo on page 454. Whatdoes the photo lead you to predict about Hussein’s relationship toIraq today? Put a checkmark (√) next to your answer.
Saddam Hussein is still absolute ruler of Iraq.
Saddam Hussein is no longer in power.
3. Read pages 453–454. Which statement from the book confirms ordisproves your prediction? Put a checkmark (√) next to your answer.
On April 9, 2003, U.S. forces gained control of Baghdad andtoppled Hussein’s regime.
By early May 2003, President Bush announced that combatoperations in Iraq had ended.
Vocabulary and Study GuideVocabularyCircle the letter of the correct definition of mandate.
A. a pilgrimage to Mecca
B. exchange of one benefit for another
C. a country placed under the control of another power
Use the word mandate in your own sentence.
Study Guide
The events below are listed out of sequence. Write the date of each event.Then rewrite the events in the order in which they occurred. One is done for you.
1. Ayatollah Khomeini takes over the government of Iran.
Reading Skill and StrategyReading Skill: ClassifyThis skill helps you understand and remember what you have read byorganizing facts into groups, or categories.
1. Read “The Importance of Oil.” Then use the chart to classify thefollowing countries according to whether they mostly sell oil or mostly buy oil: France, Great Britain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait,Saudi Arabia, United States.
Reading Strategy: Predict and Infer2. Look at the illustration “The Five Pillars of Islam” on page 442. Then
read the heading and Main Idea on page 457. Put a checkmark (√)next to the statement that is most likely to tell about something youwill read in this section.
Muslims work hard every day to sell oil.
The teachings of Islam are part of the region’s culture.
The people in this region pray to many different gods every day.
3. Use “The Five Pillars of Islam” and the picture caption on page 457 tocomplete this sentence:
Reading Skill and StrategyReading Skill: Main Idea and DetailsThis skill helps you understand ideas by seeing how they are related.
1. Read “Rights for Women.” Read the main idea in the large rectanglebelow. Write details from the paragraph that support the main idea inthe smaller rectangles.
Reading Strategy: Predict and Infer2. Think about what you know about dams and their purpose. Then
study the map and photo on page 463. Fill in the blanks to predictwhat you might learn from reading about the Aswan High Dam.
The Aswan Dam the Nile’s yearly floods but
also made the surrounding soil fertile.
3. What inference about the city of Cairo can you make from viewing thephoto of the new city on page 466?
Reading Skill and StrategyReading Skill: Cause and EffectThis skill helps you see how one event can be related to another, eitherby causing it or by resulting from it.
1. Read “The People of Israel.” Then write the letter of each statementbelow on the organizer to show whether it is a cause (small boxes),or an effect (large box).
A. New immigrants wanted to own land.
B. New immigrants were able to share expenses.
C. Israeli immigrants invented a new kind of community, called a kibbutz.
D. Families needed group child care so women could work.
Reading Strategy: Predict and Infer2. Read the photo caption on page 472. Predict what you will learn
about the role of women in Israel’s daily life.
3. Read the statistics about Arab Israelis in government on page 471.What can you infer about Arab influence on laws and government?
Reading Skill and StrategyReading Skill: Compare and ContrastThis skill helps you understand how historical events or people are different.
1. Read “A Powerful Ruler.” Then fill in the chart to compare andcontrast ancient Turkish traditions with modern western ways.
Reading Strategy: Predict and Infer2. Study the photograph near the heading “Changes Brought by
Modernization.” Read the caption. Make a prediction about somethingyou will probably learn in this section.
3. Read “Rights and Freedoms Today.” Think about what you know aboutthe African American struggle for civil rights in the United States inthe 1960s. Make an inference about the position of the Kurds inTurkish society today.