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100
What animal is ideal to use in travel in the desert.
What is a camel.
100
What is the scarcity of food in an area called?
What is famine.
100
Ebola and HIV are examples of this problem in Africa.
What are diseases?
100
The lack of ______ ______due to droughts and sanitation is a major problem in Africa and greatly impacts the African society.
What is clean water.
100
The cutting of trees for firewood and clearing of forests for farming are placing this tropical area of Africa at risk.
What is the rain forest.
200
The lack of rainfall in an area causes a _________.
What is drought.
200
What is the longest river in the world at 4, 258 miles?
What is the Nile River.
200
Most of the people in the Savannah depend on farming and agriculture to make their_________.
What is living.
200
This country contains most of the rain forest.
What is the Democratic Republic of Congo.
300
Largest desert in the world that takes up most of North Africa.
What is the Sahara.
300
What desert is located south of the Sahara and receives only slightly more rainfall and therefore has more vegetation?
What is the Sahel.
300
This area contains the tropical grasslands and is home to many of the animals of Africa.
What is the Savannah.
300
This is the highest peak in Africa at 19,341 ft.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro.
300
This desert extends across southern Africa.
What is the Kalahari.
400
This desert is a trade route between the Middle East and Europe.
What is the Sahara.
400
Cairo is trade center in Egypt along the what river?
What is the Nile River.
400
This area in eastern Africa is 4,000 miles long and was formed by dropping tectonic plates.
What is the Great Rift Valley.
400
This sea separates Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Red Sea.
400
Pesticides and fertilizers, human waste (no $$ for water treatment plants, manufacturing byproducts from industry are all causing problems for the overpopulated people group living along this river.
What is the Nile River.
500
This river supplies the dry Sahel area before flowing into Nigeria. As more water is drawn for the Sahel, less is available down the river.
What is the Niger River.
500
Centuries of farming and grazing along with less rainfall have gradually damaged land in the Sahel. Millions of people struggle to farm in it because of poor _____ quality.
What is soil.
500
The process of the desert expanding into areas that had formerly been farmland.
What is desertification.
500
Some governments ignore this problem contaminating major rivers and waterways because they want their industries to make more profits.
What is pollution.
500
In Ethiopia, people who have lived for generations by farming and raising grazing animals like sheep and goats are finding they have less and less land available to them due to increasing populations, the wearing away of soil and deforestation which has caused____________.
What is desertification.
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