What is the ability to read and write proficiently?
literacy
100
What is the southernmost country in Africa?
South Africa
100
What is the longest river in the world?
Nile River
100
What is the biggest threat to the African rainforest?
deforestation
100
What form of agriculture is it when an area of forest is cleared by cutting and burning and is then planted, usually for several seasons before being left behind?
slash and burn farming
200
What is it called when a country is enclosed, or nearly enclosed by land?
landlocked
200
Most Arab people belong to which religious group?
Islam
200
What is the largest lake in Africa?
Lake Victoria
200
Complete the sentence: People and animals becoming sick is an effect of _____________________ in Africa.
water pollution
200
What are a majority of the people that live in the Sahara?
nomads
300
What is a group of people that share a common belief system, but are not necessarily composed of a single ethnic group?
religious group
300
What are the two main religious groups in Africa?
Christianity and Islam
300
What is the world's largest hot desert?
Sahara Desert
300
What effect does poor soil and deforestation have on land in Africa?
erosion and poor crops
300
Where do most of Africa's population live?
in cities near water
400
What is a method of farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer's family, with little or nothing left over to sell?
subsistence farming
400
What religion do the Ashanti and Bantu people practice?
Traditional
400
Words to describe the savanna region of Africa are ____________.
rolling grassland and scattered trees and shrubs
400
What mountain range is located in Northern Africa?
The Atlas Mountains
500
What word means "service and facilities people need including roads, highways, water, sewerage, power plants, etc?
infrastructure
500
What people that practice Islam called?
Muslims
500
The Nile River is the the Mediterranean Sea as the Congo River is to the ________________.
Atlantic Ocean.
500
What is causing the unequal water distribution in Africa?
growing urban populations
500
What is the longest and second deepest lake in the world?