Deserts
Vocab
H20
Life in Africa
Land & climate
100
Africa's biggest desert. We are studying everything below this desert
Sahara Desert
100
Triangular section of land formed by sand and silt carried from a river.
Delta
100
The most precious resource in some places in Africa
water/rain
100
Only _______ of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa have clean drinking water.
1/3 or 33%
100
This climate sees the most rain and lies around the equator
Rain Forest
200
__________ desert is a coastal desert on the west coast of Africa
Namib
200
Disposal of waster products. Sub-Saharan Africa does not have very good ___________
Sanitation
200
where fresh water meets salt water
estuary
200
This giant killer is spread by a tiny insect. Killing 500,000+ people every year
Malaria
200
Africa's landscape is made up of many levels of __________.
Plateaus
300
The __________ desert lies in Botswana, eastern Namibia and South Africa. Day and night temperatures in this desert can fall from 49 to 10.
Kalahari
300
Hot dry air from the Sahara desert
harmattan
300
This is the largest lake in Africa
Lake Victoria
300
A _______________ in Sub-Saharan Africa makes it hard to feed its growing population
food shortage
300
Tallest mountain in Africa that used to be a volcano
Mount Kilimanjaro
400
Process by which productive farmland turns into desert
Desertification
400
The name of the northern steppe bordering the Sahara. It also means "edge" in Arabic
Sahel
400
Towering waterfall that spills over the side of a cliff
cataract
400
Ethnic killings, lack of food and diseases all help make the _________________ in Sub-Saharan Africa much shorter than the rest of the world
life expectancy
400
This region is the most populated in eastern Sub-Saharan Africa (higher elevation)
Eastern Highlands
500
This strip of dry climate separates the desert from the Savanna
Steppe
500
___________________ is one of the world's largest plains with many different kinds of exotic animal.
Serengeti Plain
500
The gulf on the west coast of Africa? Many people live here. Gulf of _______________
Guinea
500
South Africa and ____________ have the highest concentration of AIDS (p.516)
Zimbabwe
500
This mountain range lies in in south-east Sub-Saharan Africa
Drakensberg Range
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