Regions
Resources
The People
Countries
The Culture
100
This very large desert is in the North region of Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
100
This African resource has been mined for centuries by African laborers out of the Congo and mountains of South Africa.
What is Diamonds?
100
Africa's population is _____________.
What is growing, booming, increasing, or rising?
100
This country is located in northeastern Africa and has one of Africa's most important resources flowing through it, the Nile River.
What is Egypt?
100
There are over 2,000 of these spoken in Africa.
What is Languages?
200
This region of Africa is where most of the 12 million people sold into slavery came from.
What is West Africa?
200
This resource was traded after Africa was colonized by Europeans. Most of this resource found its way to the Americas, including our country.
What is the African people - through slavery?
200
Most of Africa and its people were under the colonial rule of these people.
What is European countries?
200
This country's capital is Rabat and it is also home to a foreign exchange student in the high school, Nahla!
What is Morocco?
200
Most people in Africa practice one of two religions. Name one.
What is Christianity or Islam (Muslim)?
300
This region has many diamond mines and a large plain called a Savannah.
What is South Africa?
300
This resource is in high demand in most African countries and it is up for debate who should control the resource, the governments or private businesses.
What is Water?
300
Most Africans live in this area, in fact 70% do.
What is rural areas, or the countryside?
300
This is the oldest country in Africa, it has been around for thousands of years and is believed to be one of the first areas where people originated.
What is Ethiopia?
300
Many Africans identify themselves with this kind of group. Members of this group have the same culture, beliefs, traditions, and live in the same areas.
What is Ethnic Group?
400
This region has the largest rainforest, the Congo, in Africa.
What is Central Africa?
400
When the Portuguese established a colony in 1482 in Africa, they began trading for several different resources. Name one.
What is gold or spices?
400
This disease is greatly affecting Africa's population, killing millions and leaving millions of kids without parents.
What is AIDS?
400
This country located in southern Africa had a long period of separation between blacks and whites called "the apartheid."
What is South Africa?
400
These are ways that Africans express themselves. Give an example.
What is Arts? (woodcarving, music, dance, storytelling)
500
This region is home to some of Africa's firsts and bests. The Great Rift Valley is where people originated from and Lake Victoria is where the Nile River begins in this region.
What is East Africa?
500
This resource is harvested from trees in the jungle. Many Africans were killed by King Leopold of Belgium because of failure to harvest enough of this highly useful resource.
What is Rubber?
500
This 3-letter acronym describes the quality of life in a country - the closer the number is to one, the more modern and better off the country is. Most African countries have a lower rating, somewhere near 0.5 and the United States is a 0.95.
What is H.D.I. or Human Development Index?
500
In this country you might need to learn to speak Swahili. "Jambo" everyone! (It means hello)
What is Kenya?
500
These two important terms describe African family life. One term is about grandparents and cousins, and the other is about the parents and siblings.
What is Extended Family and Nuclear Family?
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