Environmental Issues
This term describes the destruction of forested areas, often driven by the need for farmland, logging, or firewood.
What is deforestation?
This is a piece of information based on the truth of what actually happened.
What is a fact?
During the late 19th century, European empires divided the African continent into colonies during a period known by this competitive phrase.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This massive landform is the largest hot desert in the world, stretching across most of North Africa.
What is the Sahara?
Environmental issues like desertification and water pollution frequently lead to this crisis, where people do not have enough food to eat.
What is famine or starvation?
This major African river, the longest in the world, faces severe pollution from industrial waste and agricultural runoff.
What is the Nile?
This word describes when a piece of information is not factually based, but instead includes someone's personal judgment.
What is bias or opinion?
At this famous 1884–1885 meeting, European leaders drew political boundaries for Africa without inviting a single African leader.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This process occurs when fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
What is desertification?
When land becomes unusable due to environmental degradation, people are forced to move, creating this specific type of displaced person.
What are environmental refugees?
Overgrazing by livestock and poor farming techniques are two major human activities that accelerate this environmental crisis.
What do you call something that gives you information on a specific topic?
What is a source?
When European powers drew these artificial borders, they completely ignored existing ethnic groups, cultures, and these traditional linguistic groupings.
What are tribes?
This semi-arid transition zone separates the dry Sahara Desert from the wetter savannas to the south.
What is the Sahel?
Nigeria's economy relies heavily on this natural resource, but its extraction has caused catastrophic pollution in the Niger Delta.
What is oil?
As trees are cut down, this protective top layer of earth is easily washed away by rain or blown away by wind.
What is topsoil or soil erosion?
These are the three parts of a good ELA or Social Studies constructed response.
What are a claim, evidence, and explanation?
Because European powers grouped rival ethnic groups together inside the same colonial borders, many African nations experienced this type of internal warfare after gaining independence.
What is a civil war?
Most people living in the Sahel traditionally practiced this type of herding, moving their livestock from place to place to find water.
What is nomadism or pastoralism?
The instability of many African governments today makes it incredibly difficult to enforce these types of conservation laws.
What are environmental regulations or anti-pollution laws?
To fight desertification, African nations are planting a massive wall of trees across the continent known by this name.
What is the Great Green Wall?
When reading a piece of information, you can gather additional information by reading very carefully, which can give hints known as this phrase.
What are context clues?
These types of artificial borders were based on geometric lines or natural features rather than the cultural history of the people living there.
What are political boundaries?
The clearing of sparse vegetation in the Sahel for this specific household fuel source has rapidly accelerated the spread of the desert.
What is firewood or charcoal?
This term describes the shift of populations from rural areas into cities, which strains urban water supply and waste management systems across Africa.
What is urbanization?