This area of Africa is the largest desert in the world and about the size of the United States.
Sahara
Ethnic Group
Most people living around Africa's tropical rain forest are in these two professions.
What is logging and agriculture (farming)?
This ethnic group is found on the eastern coast of Africa.
Swahili
Widespread famine, deforestation, and desertification in Africa is often caused by this.
drought (no rainfall)?
This band of dry land borders the Sahara to the south and includes some of the poorest nations in Africa.
Sahel
They live in sub-Saharan Africa, central Africa, and southern Africa. They are a large group.
Bantu
Most people in northern Africa live around this physical feature.
What is the Nile River?
This African ethnic group is the oldest and largest group in Africa, and speak over 200 dialects of languages.
Bantu
The Great Green Tree Wall has been planted in the Sahel to reverse this environmental problem in Africa.
desertification
This geographic feature stretches from Syria to Mozambique and was created by shifting tectonic plate millions of years of ago
W Great Rift Valley
They live in northern Africa, including the Bedouins. They are primarily Sunni Islam.
Arabs
The area or region of Africa which is least populated due to lack of precipitation (rainfall).
What is the Sahara?
This ethnic group brought Islam religion to northern Africa.
Arabs
This physical feature is where most of Africa's largest animals and soil suitable for agriculture.
savanna
Most Africans today are either _______________ or ______________ religions.
Muslim, Christian
It's a strip of dry grasslands located south of the Sahara and north of the equator.
What is the Sahel?
Speak Asante and Twi
Ashanti
Regulation (passing laws) for industry may help stop this environmental disaster.
What is water pollution?
This is the largest lake in Africa.
Lake Victoria
This group shares a common set of beliefs, places of worship, and sacred texts.
religious group
This is the second largest desert in Africa located in the southern part of the continent.
What is the Kalahari Desert?
This ethnic group practices the religions of Islam, Christianity, and this Africa traditional religion.
What is animism?
Deforestation leads to this problem for Africa.
What is soil erosion and/or poor soil for farming/agriculture?