The Nile
The Sahara
The Sahel
Vocab
Extra and Water Cycle
100
The longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
100
The worlds largest desert
What is the Sahara?
100
This lies on the southern border of the Sahara
What is the Sahel?
100
Steady winds in tropical latitudes that blow toward the equator from both the north and the south
What are trade winds?
100
The first stage of the water cycle
What is evaporation?
200
The length of the Nile
What is 4,160 miles long?
200
This occurred to create this desert
What is climate change?
200
They live in the Sahel
What are Pastoral Nomads?
200
The process by which land becomes more and more dry until it turns into desert. Climate change, human activities, or both may cause this.
What is desertification?
200
The second stage of the water cycle
What is condensation?
300
The 2 main branches of the Nile
What are the White and Blue Nile?
300
The desert remains dry because of this
What are trade winds?
300
Pastoral Nomads do this
What are trading and herding animals?
300
A great sea of sand with tall sand dunes in the Sahara
What an erg?
300
The third stage of the water cycle
What is precipitation?
400
Where the White Nile and the Blue Nile begin
What are Lake Victoria and Lake Tana?
400
Decertification toke place around this time
What is around 300 years ago?
400
1 thing that threaten the Sahel landscape
What is desertification?
400
A crop that is grown to be sold rather than to be consumed by the farmers and their families
What is a cash crop?
400
The two things that happen to water when it hits the ground
What is runoff or infiltration?
500
Major ways the Nile has helped the people near it
What are giving water to drink, cook, and wash, etc?
500
The Nile Delta is this long
What is 155 miles?
500
Another thing that threatens the Sahel
What is drought?
500
The practice of clearing one area for farming for a few years and then moving on to another area when the first has lost its fertility
What is shifting agriculture?
500
Coach Watkins' real name (hopefully not on quiz)
What is Tony?
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