Vocab #1
Vocab #2
Land and Water
Climate & Vegetation
Resources/Land Use
100
To supply with water through a ditch, pipe, channel or sprinkler
What is to irrigate
100
A large level area that rises above the surrounding land, and has a least on side with a steep slope.
What is a plateau
100
Why is Africa called the plateau continent?
What is it is made up of mostly raised level areas of land that drops sharply near the sea (mostly plateaus)
100
Africa's location near the equator, elevation and relationship to large bodies of water and landforms affect its what?
What is climate
100
What type of farming is most of Africa's farmland used for?
What is substance farming.
200
A river or stream that flows into another larger river
What is a tributary
200
A deep crack in the Earth's surface
What is a rift
200
Name 3 of Africa's major rivers
What are the Nile, Congo, Zambezi and Niger
200
The height of land above or below sea level is called what?
What is elevation
200
What type of work do most African's do?
What is farming.
300
A long period of little or no rain
What is drought
300
A crop that is raised for sale.
What is cash crop
300
What is the highest mountain in Africa?
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro
300
What is the name of the desert that extends over most of Northern Africa?
What is The Sahara
300
Name one of Africa's cash crops.
What is coffee, cacao, or tea.
400
Raising just enough crops to support one's family
What is substance farming
400
A region of tall grasses with scattered trees.
What is a savanna
400
What are the four regions of Africa?
What are Northern, Western, Eastern and Southern/Central
400
Where are most rainforests located in Africa?
What is near the equator
400
How does Africa protect against hard times in the economy?
What is they diversify their crops.
500
To add variety to; to expand a country's economy by increasing the variety of goods produced
What is diversity
500
A fertile place in a desert where there is water and vegetation
What is Oasis
500
What makes it impossible for ships to travel from the sea to the interior of Africa?
What are waterfalls or rapids (cataracts)
500
What is one of the two major sicknesses in Africa spread by the tsetse fly and mosquito?
What is sleeping sickness and malaria.
500
Name two of the three most important natural resources in Africa.
What are crops, minerals and timber.
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