key terms
process in which deserts expand.
What is desertification?
Tropical grassland with scattered tress
What is savanna?
Nickname of Nigeria.
What is "Giant of Africa"?
These five countries are called the Sahel countries.
What are Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad?
Kola nuts are used for this.
What is to flavor cola drinks?
a group of houses surrounded by a wall
What is a compound?
Produces enough to support a family’s needs
What is subsistence farming?
Capital of Nigeria
What is Abuja?
Famous Muslim ruler of Mali who made Tombouctou a leading center of Islamic learning.
Who was Mansa Musa?
Only West African country that was never a colony.
What is Liberia?
plant whose roots are ground into flour and eaten
What is cassava?
Extended period of extreme dryness
What is drought?
Number of ethnic groups in Nigeria.
What is over 300?
Religion most people of the Sahel follow.
What is Islam?
Capital of Ghana
What is Accra?
Mineral salt used in fertilizers
What is phosphate?
When animals strip the land so bare that plants cannot grow.
What is overgraze?
4 major ethnic groups in Nigeria.
What are Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, and Ibo?
Reason fishing is declined in Mauritania.
What is because of overfishing?
These are the 11 countries that make up Coastal Countries in Africa.
What are Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin?
Tropical tree whose seeds are used to make cocoa and chocolate.
What is cacao?
Tropical tree with roots above and beneath the water
What is mangrove?
Largest city and previous capital of Nigeria.
What is Lagos?
Meaning of Sahel.
What is border in Arabic?
Climate of the Coastal countries.
What is tropical rain forest or tropical savanna?