Physical Features
This world’s largest desert is roughly the size of the entire United States.
What is the Sahara?
This body of water borders North Africa to the North.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This religion arrived and entirely changed the culture of the northwestern traders.
What is Islam?
This specific climate, found on the northern coastlines, features moderate temperatures and mild rainfall.
What is a Mediterranean climate?
This is the official language of the region where 80% of people are of Arab-Berber descent.
What is Arabic?
This narrow, fertile area in Egypt is completely surrounded by desert.
What is the Nile River Valley?
This is the longest river in the world and is considered "Egypt's jewel."
What is the Nile?
Between 1800 and 1900, many countries in the Maghreb were colonized by this European nation.
What is France?
In the Sahara, temperatures typically range between these two high numbers.
What are 90 and 120 degrees?
North Africa is described as this type of culture, where how you say something is as important as what you say.
What is high-context culture?
This 300-mile wide region of grass-covered plains acts as a transition between the Sahara and southern jungles.
What is the Sahel?
Since 1963, this body of water has shrunk to 1/20th of its original size.
What is Lake Chad?
These were the three "unfathomably rich" empires that once controlled Sahel trade routes.
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
Although the region lacks fertile soil, this country leads the world in farm fishing.
What is Egypt?
This ancient writing system was developed by the Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphics?
These are the three basic landforms found in North Africa.
What are rocky mountains, the Sahara, and flat grasslands?
These two rivers, other than the Nile, provide essential farmland for the region.
What are the Niger and Chari Rivers?
This is the current status of Western Sahara.
What is a territory?
These are three valuable natural resources (non-food) found in North Africa.
What are petroleum, uranium, and oil?
These two specific values are highly prized in North African society.
What are respect and hospitality?
While Upper Egypt is only 10 miles wide, this is the width of Lower Egypt.
What is 150 miles?
This body of water forms the eastern border of the North African region.
What is the Red Sea?
These two nations fought for control of Western Sahara after colonization ended.
What are Morocco and Mauritania?
This term describes the southern part of the Sahel's climate.
What is savanna?
Because men are the leaders of the family and government, the society is described by this term.
What is patriarchal?