Physical Geography
The largest Hot Desert in the world covering parts of all 5 North African Countries.
What is the Sahara Desert
What is a dry streambed called?
What is a Wadi
What religion is practiced most in North Africa?
What is Islam
Most people in Egypt live close to what water source?
What is the Nile River
What is the scarcest resource in Northern Africa?
What is Water
What are large areas of sand where dunes, like slow waves, roll across the desert called?
What is an erg
The belief in many gods or deities
The ancient Egyptian writing style
What is Hieroglyphics
The Lifestyle of shepherds and people who move from place to place.
What is a Nomad
The series of revolutions in 2010 across Northern Africa and Middle East
What is the Arab Spring.
Underground collections of water that is vital to dessert survival.
what is an Aquifer
the buildup of dirt at the mouth of a river as it enters a larger body of water.
What is a Delta
The plant that became very profitable in trade because of its pleasant smell
What is Myrrh
What is the man made canal in Egypt called?
What is the Suez Canal
across Northern Africa this statistic is generally lower than the rest of the world. Especially among women due to exclusion from education.
What is Literacy rate
Chemicals and minerals taken from Morocco and Tunisia to be used in fertilizer
A fertile patch of land in the middle of the desert
what is an Oasis
After World War 1 the two nations that controlled most of Northern Africa
What are France and Great Britain
the Egyptian dish made of chickpeas and herbs
What was the name of the Dictator in Libya who was killed in 2011 by rebels of the Arab Spring?
Who is Ghaddafi/Qaddafi
what is it called when rain pours out on one side of a mountain range leaving the other side dry and barren?
What is the Rain shadow effect
The poor farmers of Egypt
who are the Fellaheen
The two Empires that controlled the majority of North Africa.
What are the Romans and Islamic Empires
What are two factors of a North African town or city?
what is:
Very old, Narrow streets, lack of city planning, crowded, busy, built over many years
within the politics of of North Africa, what are the two forces that are the strongest among citizens?
What are Democracy and Islamic Fundamentalism