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This desert is located in Southern Africa
What is the Kalahari Desert?
High average temperatures year-round and heavy equatorial rainfall create this lush biome in West and Central Africa.
What is the tropical rain forest?
In this type of government system, actions are determined by the will of the people rather than a single ruler.
What is a democracy?
Economies like those of Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa fall between pure command and pure market on the economic continuum, making them this type
What are mixed economies?
Questions like "What can our country produce most efficiently?" help a country decide what to do when trading with others.
What is specialize (specialization)?
This mountain range borders the Sahara and separates it from the northern coastline.
What are the Atlas Mountains?
This environmental issue in Africa is primarily caused by clearing land for farmland, infrastructure, and commercial logging
What is deforestation?
Unlike a parliamentary democracy, this democratic system features a greater separation of power between the executive and legislative branches.
What is a presidential democracy?
In a pure market economy, basic economic questions are answered by consumer preferences, supply, and this.
What is demand?
Unlike quotas or embargoes, this type of trade barrier provides the added benefit of raising revenue for the government.
What is a tariff?
This region of Central Africa has suffered the most environmental damage from commercial farming and logging.
What is the tropical rain forest?
This agricultural method practiced by many sub-Saharan farmers leads directly to deforestation and desertification
What is slash-and-burn farming?
In a presidential democracy, this group directly selects the head of government.
Who are the citizens?
On the Index of Economic Freedom scale, this nation's government exercises the most influence over its economy compared to Nigeria, South Africa, and Botswana.
What is Kenya?
It is easiest to exchange currency with a country whose government has operated under this type of political condition for decades.
What is political stability (or the same government)?
Located in East Africa, this is the tallest mountain peak on the African continent.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
This biome is characterized by rolling grasslands, scattered trees, rainy summers, and dry winters.
What is the savanna?
Citizens in this country directly elect both their head of government and their national legislators by popular vote.
What is Nigeria?
The presence of these types of enterprises in Kenya and Nigeria proves that their economies are not pure market economies
What are government-owned (state-owned) businesses?
This major public health hazard in Africa directly causes the widespread contamination of water supplies and disease transmission.
What is water pollution?
These three specific countries fcontain a desert climate within their borders.(2 located in North Africa, 1 located in South Africa)
What are Egypt, Sudan, and South Africa?
In Africa, the vast majority of available freshwater is used for this specific economic purpose
What is farming (agriculture)?
In South Africa, citizens elect legislative representatives who then select the president; in this nearby nation, citizens elect the head of government directly.
What is Kenya?
Even though state-owned companies dominate oil and timber in "Country X," small shops and restaurants still thrive, classifying it as this economic type.
What is a mixed economy?
According to global data, the widespread presence of this health factor best explains why life expectancy in many developing African nations is lower than in nations like Japan or Canada.
What is the spread of disease?