Features of Africa
Environmental issues of Africa
Environmental issues part II
Diverse cultures of Africa
Regions of Africa
100

What is the total market value of goods and services produced?

What is GDP Gross Domestic Product

100
Four of the many different types of environmental issues in Africa.
What is lack of water, poor soil quality, and expanding deserts?
100
This desert is an area of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Is is an example of how poor farming practices and the destruction of trees and schrubs can lead to an ecpanding desert/
What is The Sahel?
100
A group of people who share cultural ideas and beliefs that have been a part of their community for generations
What is ethnic group?
100
A region where grass is able to grow naturally. Ususlly there is not enough water to sustain trees and forest.
What is The Savanna?
200

Taxes on imported goods

What is a tariff?

200
The longest river in the world, however, overpopulation and poor sanitation regulations have made life along this river more difficult.
What is The Nile River?
200
The destruction of trees and other vegation. This continues to be a problem in the Sahel and elsewhere in Africa.
What is Deforstation?
200

Shares a belief system in a god or gods, witha specific set of rituals and literature. People from different ethnic groups may share the same religion, though they may be from very fdifferent cultures.

What is religious groups?

200
Found in parts of the worls that are warm and humid and usually in an area near the earth's equator.
What is the Rainforest?
300

Limitations on the amount of specific products that may be imported from a certain country during a certain time.

What is a quota?

300
This river provides some relief to the people living in the Sahel. Considered a vital transportation route.
What is Niger River?
300
Periods of little rainfall which causes people who live in these areas often face starvation and poverty.
What are droughts?
300
A community that developed along the coast of the East African when Arab and Persian traders looking for profitable markets began to settle there and intermarry with the local Bantu-speaking population.
What is Swahili?
300
Region just south of the Sahara Desert. zforms a wide band stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
What is the Sahel?
400

The presence of harmful substances in water making it unsafe

What is water- borne disease?

400

Timber that is exported to help boost economy.

What is logging?

400
The process of the desert expanding into areas that had formerly been farmland. As the land is overused the soil becomes poor and powdery/
What is desertification?
400
Believe their kingdom was founded in 1701 with the help of a holy man who produced a Golden stool from the heavens and gave it to the first chief.
What is Ashanti?
400
The largest desert on earth. It covers over 3.5 million square miles and very few people are able to live there.
What is the Sahara?
500

Layer of rich soil best for crops.

What is Topsoil?

500
This River provides water to villages and towns, water for irrigation, and a fishing industry. It serves as a major transportation route for those who need to go from the interior of Afria to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is The Congo River?
500

Planting trees in a area where the forest once was.

What is reforestation?

500
These people began to spread into North Africa in the late 600s AD, when the first Muslim armies arrived in Egypt.
What are Arabs?
500

Growing just enough food for you family to survive.

What is sustainability?

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