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

A large country in Central Africa with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. This country is rich in mineral resources, including copper, cobalt, rubber, and diamonds

What is The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)?

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. It's an example of how poor farming practices and the destruction of trees and shrubs can lead to an expanding 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. Usually there is not enough water to sustain trees and forest.

What is The Savanna?

200

A large North African country located along the banks of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean coast. The Nile River runs the length of this country and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

What is Egypt?

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, with a specific set of rituals and literature. People from different ethnic groups may share the same religion, though they may be from very different cultures.

What is religious groups?

200

Found in parts of the world that are warm and humid and usually in an area near the earth's equator.

What is the Rainforest?

300
This country is located along the eastern coast of Africa bordering the Indian Ocean. Known all over the world for its magnificent animal parks and rich savanna grasslands.
What is Kenya?
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. Forms a wide band stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.

What is the Sahel?

400
A large nation on the coast of West Africa that has nearly every kind of habitat found in Africa. The nothern part of the country is close to the Sahara and is rocky and sparsely covered with short, brush-like vegetation.
What is Nigeria?
400

What are the environmental issues across the continent of Africa?

What is water Pollution, unequal water distribution, deforestation, and desertification.

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

The highest mountain (Mount Kilimanjaro) is found in this region?

What is the savanna?

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

How does water pollution affect the people of Africa?

What is affects drinking water?

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 subsistence farming?
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