Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part Two
People and Countries
Landforms and Climate
Landforms and Rivers
100
What are escarpments?
What are steep cliffs
100
What were the rulers of ancient Egypt called?
What are pharohs
100
How much power did the pharaoh have over the lives of the people?
What is complete power
100
80 percent of the African continent is in what?
What is the tropics
100
What is the longest river in the world?
What is the Nile
200
Large waterfalls and rapids
What are cataracts
200
Prolonged periods of little or no rain
What is drought
200
Who ws the longest reigning female pharaoh?
Who was Hatshepsut
200
How many climate zones does Africa have?
What is four
200
What is hydroelectric power?
What is energy produced by moving water
300
Most of Africa is what landform?
What are plateaus
300
Where do the majority of Africans live today? What is their occupation?
What is the savanna, farming
300
Who discovered the tomb of King Tutankamun?
Who is Howard Carter
300
What is the deepest river in the world?
What is the Congo
300
The Great Rift Valley slices through what part of the continent? What is it mostly made up of?
What is the eastern part, mostly made up of a series of mountains and valleys
400
What do the people of Botswana call their money? What does it mean?
What is pula, rain
400
A form of writing developed by the ancient Egyptians that used pictures and symbols
What were hieroglyphics
400
What present day country shares the same location as the long ago Kingdom of Axum?
What is Ethiopia
400
What did the Egyptians build that kept the Nile from flooding?
What is the Aswan Dam
400
Africa is the _____________ largest continent in the world. What is the largest continent in the world?
What is second, Asia
500
What is leaching?
What is when constant rains dissolve and wash away the soil's nutrients
500
The turning of semidesert land into desert
What is desertification
500
What percent of Africa do rainforests cover?
What is 8 percent
500
What part of Africa served as a major source of gold for Europe?
What is West Africa
500
What kinds of minerals do African nations sell to the world today?
What are copper, diamonds, cobalt, and oil
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