Ethnic Group
What are the main ethnic groups of Africa
The Arabs, Ashanti, Bantu, and the Swahili
What is the main religious group of Africa?
Christianity
What is the name of the largest hot dessert in north africa
Sahara
What is the famous country that is home to the great pyrimids in the mouth of the Nile river?
Egypt
What do we call it when good, farm able land slowly dries up and turns into a desert?
Desertification
Which group is famous for making beautiful, colorful Kente cloth in west Africa
The Ashanti
What are the two biggest world religions practice in Africa today?
Christianity and Islam
What do we call the strip of dry land just south of the Sahara that is slowly turning into a desert
Sahel
What country in west Africa has the largest population on the continent?
Nigeria
Which dry, strip of grassland just south of the sahara desert is facing the biggest threat from desertification?
Sahel
Which group lives on the east coast of Africa and famous for being great sea traders?
The Swahili
What do we call the traditional belief that things and nature like tress, rivers, and rocks have a spirit?
Animism
What is the name of a large desert located in south western Africa
The Kalahari desert
What country at the very southern tip of the continent and is famous for its history and former leader, Nelson Mandela?
South africa
What is the major human cause of desertification where farmers let their animals eat too much of the grass in one area?
Overgrazing
What is the massive group of people that migrated across Africa, spreading farming and language?
The Bantu
What is the main difference in how you join an ethnic group versus a religious group?
You are born into an ethnic group, but you can choose your religious group.
Why is it so difficult for large ethnic groups to live deep inside the middle of the sahara desert
Because there is little water of food and lack of rainfall
In what modern west African country do most of the Ashanti ethnic group live today?
Ghana
When wind and rain wash away the top layer of soil because there are no plant roots to hold it down, what is it called?
Soil erosion
Why are the Bantu split into so many different smaller tribes today?
Because they moved to many different places over thousands of years
What major religion is practice by almost everyone living in north Africa?
Islam
What is the rain forest that is being deeply effected by deforestation in central Africa?
The tropical rain forest
What East African country is famous for its wildlife safaris on the savanna and borders Lake Vicoria