Vocabulary
African Geography
The Savanna
Slave Trade, Etc.
Vocabulary
100

What is seperation by race?

What is segregation? 

100

The largest dry desert in Africa is:

What is the Sahara?

100

The apex predator of the grasslands that sleeps 20 hours a day is:

What is the lion?

100

One positive result of the slave trade was:

What is African culture and traditions spread to the Americas?

100

What is the lack of enough food or nutrients termed?

What is malnutrition?

200

The legalized separation of blacks & whites in South Africa was called? 

What is Apartheid?

200

The geographic feature that is formed by the separating of two tectonic plates in Africa is:

What is a rift valley?

200

The animal that is least able to adapt to human environments is also the fastest land animal?

What is the cheetah?

200

Many countries were unduly influenced by French, English, Dutch & Spanish practices of:

What is colonialism?

200

What is a steep slope that links two different elevations?

What is escarpment?

300

A person sent by a religious organization to convert others to their religion is called a:

What nis a missionary?

300

The highest elevation in Africa is 19,340 feet above sea level:

What is Mount Kilimanjaro?

300

This animal is the most adaptive animal to human environments because it does not compete with cattle for the same food source:

WShat is the giraffe?

300

This is the business of trading enslaved people taken from Africa across the Atlantic starting in the 1500's called:

What is the transatlantic slave trade?

300

What is a gradual transition from fertile to less productive land:

What is desertification?

400

The practice of one country directly ruling and developing trade in a foreign territory for its own benefit is:

What is colonialism?

400

This desert in South Africa support a vast ecosystem of plants and animals:

What is the Kalahari Desert?

400

The biggest threat to the savanna is the cutting down of trees for farm or urban use called:

What is deforestation?

400

Who dedicated his life to eliminating apartheid in South Africa?

Who is Nelson Mandela?

400

A way of visiting natural areas that conserves the natural resources of the region:

What is ecotourism?

500

The lack of enough food or nourishment is:

What is malnutrition?

500

This rainforest contains plants and animals not found anywhere else in the world:

What is the Madagascar Rainforest?

500

The animal that is the most numerous is also the most essential to supporting the ecosystem of the savanna:

What is the wilderbeest?

500

The migration of these people 5000 years ago spread culture, language, and customs all over south and eastern Africa?

Who are the Bantu?

500

What is a source of energy thart uses water to produce power called?

What is hydroelectricity?

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