Landforms & Climate
What country is the only landlocked Central African country?
Central African Republic
Which country in West Africa avoided European imperialism?
Liberia
What is the term for a strong identification with a tribe that speaks the same language or dialect as another?
tribalism
Which mosquito-borne disease is treated with quinine and is characterized by a sever headache, chills, and sweating of the skin?
malaria
What Central African country has an active volcano as the highest point in that country?
Cameroon
What country's capital is Kinshasa?
Democratic of the Congo
tribe
What is the term for the illegal killing of animals?
poaching
A grassy plain found in subtropical regoins.
savanna
Which country has one of the worst human rights records?
Equatorial Guinea
What is the leader of several united villages called?
the tribal chief
What is the term for the belief that all things have a spirit and that these spirits exercise great control over the world?
animism
What river serves as a national boundary and is navigable for one thousand miles?
The Congo River
Whic country has a growing tourist industry?
Gambia
Which country in West Africa was the last to gain its independence (1975)?
Cape Verde
Africans who struggle to survive and labor just to feed their families practice ___ farming.
subsistence
The sedimentary basin of the Congo River, the Congo Basin, is home to one of the world's largest ___.
rainforests
What is the most populous country in West Africa?
Nigeria
What country was an early West African kingdom?
Ghana
women
What is the only landlocked country in West Africa?
Burkina Faso
São Tomé and Príncipe
Rather the and Scriptures, traditional religions depend on what?
tradition
Which large country in Central Africa experiences three climates?
Democratic Republic of the Congo
What country has the highest percentage of animists in Equatorial Africa?
Togo