Agricultural Regions
Clear land, farm until soil is depleted, move to new fields
Shifting cultivation
Rank of continent size
Second largest
Settlement pattern where buildings are grouped together
Clustered
Early man started to farm
First Agricultural Revolution
Year of Berlin Conference
1884
Mixed crop/livestock
Number of countries in Africa
54
Settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms
dispersed
Second Agricultural Revolution
The Canal in Egypt that is an important trade route
Suez
Large, commercial farms that grow one crop usually in the tropics
Plantation
Population of Africa
Over 1 billion
1.244 billion
Property lines in a one square mile grid pattern
Township and Range
Loss or destruction of forests, mainly for logging and farming
Traders from this continent brought enslaved Africans to the Americas
Europe
Grow figs, dates, and olives with hot, dry summers and mild winters
Mediterranean
Number of languages in Africa
Over 1,500
First von Thunen ring
dairy and intensive farming
Food desert
Climate zone that is hot and humid year around and has rainforests
Tropical wet
Travel from place to place with herd
Pastoral Nomadism
Types of religions found in Africa
traditional, Christianity, Islam
Outer von Thunen ring
Ranching
An area of ground on the side of a hill that has a flattened top in order to grow things
Terrace farming
Climate zone that is the home to most Africans and has savanna grasslands
Tropical wet dry