Physical Features
What physical feature(s) are many of the largest African cities located near?
Water sources such as rivers, lakes, oceans
What is a community of people sharing a common culture, ancestry, customs, and language known as?
Ethnic group
The ethnic group that most populate Northern Africa is.
What are Arabs
What does the word "stereotype" mean?
a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
The area below the Sahara is slowly becoming more and more like a desert because of desertification.
What is the Sahel?
What is animism?
What is a traditional African religion that believes that all things have a soul.
What ethnic group views their "golden stool" as being sacred to their people?
What are Ashanti
What is the main cause of deforestation in Africa today?
Commercial logging
What is deforestation?
permanent removal of trees from a forest, which can be done for a variety of reasons. It can be caused by natural, deliberate, or accidental means.
What is the sacred text of Islam and Christianity?
koran and the Bible respectively
The ethnic group that lives in Southern and Eastern Africa of whom most African languages can be traced to...
What are the Bantu
What does the acronym "PSA" stand for?
Public Service Announcement
What do members of religious groups have in common?
share a belief in the same god, spiritual beliefs, and common sacred text.
What is the first consequence you can receive in my class?
Whole class warning
This "desert" isn't really a desert because it receives more rain than a desert should. Southern most desert we have learned about.
What is the Kalahari Desert
What are the two of the most prominent religions of the African continent?
Christianity and Islam
the majority of Swahili people practice this religion.
What is Islam
What does drought mean?
periods of very little rainfall