East Africa
North Africa
Landforms and Resources
Climate and Vegetation
Human-Environment interaction
100
Louis Leakey, an English archaeologist, began doing research in ______.
What is the Olduvai Gorge
100
Land that sinks to form long, thin valleys.
What is Rift Valleys
100
Is more than 625 miles across and is as much as 5,000 feet deep.
What is basins
100
Largest Dessert in the world.
What is the Sahara
100
Region that contains most of Nigeria's oi.
What is Niger delta.
200
Emerged in present day present day Ethiopia in the A.D 100's.
What is Aksum
200
Around 814 B.C a Phoenician queen founded _____, one of the great cities of ancient Africa.
What is Carthage
200
Worlds largest river.
What is the Nile River
200
6,000 feet under the hottest and driest places lie huge stores of underground water.
What is aquifer
200
Expansion of dry conditions into moist areas that are next to deserts.
What is Desertification
300
To prevent European wars over Africa, 14 European nations convened the _____ _____.
What is Berlin Conference
300
A monotheistic religion, is based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad.
What is Islam
300
Land that sank to form long, thin valleys.
What is Rift Valleys
300
When the water from the aquifer comes to the surface it makes an _____
What is an oasis
300
The Egyptians cut a huge channel through the land beside the Nile River. The builders used rocks from the channel as a base for this new creation.
What is Aswan High Dam
400
Since European colonization in the 19th century, countries have relied more on ____ ____ such as coffee, tea and sugar.
What is cash crops
400
A kind of music developed in the 1920's by poor urban children.
What is Rai
400
Mount Kenya and Mount ______ are Africa's highest mountains.
What is Killimanjaro
400
Tropical grassland that covers most of the continent.
What is Serengeti Plain
400
"Shore of the desert"
What is Sahel
500
Two major ethnic groups in East Africa are the ____ and the Kikuyu.
What is Masai
500
Oil makes up about 99 percent of _____'s exports.
What is Libya
500
Steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on top
What is escarpment
500
Branches that are about 150 feet up in the air.
What is a canopy
500
Sediment on farmland
What is silt
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