Vocab
A person who lives moving from place to place, usually to find food and water for their animals
What is nomad?
How many countries are considered to be apart of North Africa?
What is 7?
two sets of mountains that run alongside each other.
What are the Atlas Mountains?
The sea has brought trade, new ideas, and conquering armies
What is Mediterranean Sea?
What continent is North Africa located on?
What is Africa?
Structures built in ancient Egypt as tombs for pharaohs and important officials.
What are pyramids?
If you placed North Africa over the 48 connected states of the United States, it would reach from which two states?
What are Maine and Washington?
as large as the entire United States and covers most of North Africa and spills into three other regions of Africa, as
What is Sahara Desert?
Forms the western boundary of North Africa, touching countries like Morocco and Western Sahara as it stretches between Africa and the Americas
What is Atlantic Ocean?
What sea is located north of North Africa?
What is Mediterranean Sea?
Established paths used for the transport of goods and product
What are trade routes?
the biggest and well known countries are(must name 2)
What is Egypt, Morocco, and/or Libya
areas fed by underground sources of water.
What is oasis?
A long, narrow body of water that sits between Africa and Asia, separating northeastern Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.(sea)
What is Red Sea?
underground layers of rock in which water collects
What is aquifer
The capital city of Egypt
What is Cairo?
type of climate in North Africa?
What is arid?
city that is in a subcrop aquifer
What is Dallas County?
widely spoken language In North Africa
What is Arabic?
the capital and largest city of Libya
What is Tripoli?
What is Atlas Mountains?
Next to the Mediterranean, the most important body of water in the region
What is Nile River?