Africa: Land & Climate
This feature runs along most of Africa's coastline, making it difficult to reach the interior.
What are escarpments?
The number of languages spoken in Africa, most derived from the Bantu Migration.
What is more than 2,000?
The economic level at which most African countries operate, relying on this type of agriculture.
What is subsistence agriculture?
The 1884–85 meeting where European nations divided Africa among themselves without African input.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The tectonic process that created the Himalayas.
What is subduction (collision of plates)?
This tectonic boundary type created the Great Rift Valley in East Africa.
What is a divergent boundary?
Most people north of the Sahel practice this religion, while most south of it practice Christianity.
What is Islam?
This country is one of the leading diamond producers in the world.
What is Botswana?
The policy of legally separating white Europeans from non-white Africans in South Africa.
What is Apartheid?
This river is the most sacred to Hindus and is extremely polluted from funeral preparations and bathing.
What is the Ganges River?
These dry winds cross the Sahara, causing dust storms in West Africa.
What is the Harmattan?
This traditional African storyteller preserves oral history and culture.
What is a Griot?
China's heavy investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, mirroring old colonial patterns, is called this.
What is neocolonialism?
He fought Apartheid, was imprisoned, and became South Africa's first Black president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This South Asian country is disappearing due to rising sea levels caused by climate change.
What is the Maldives?
The three human activities most responsible for desertification in the Sahel.
What are overgrazing, farming, and increasing population?
The approximate percentage of Africa's land suitable for agriculture.
What is less than 25%?
The three African countries that are among the world's leading petroleum producers.
What are Libya, Nigeria, and Algeria?
A country completely surrounded by another country, like Lesotho inside South Africa.
What is an enclave?
The Hindu social hierarchy dividing people by birth into ranked groups, from Brahmans to Panchamas.
What is the caste system?
This mountain range in South Africa contains the continent's highest waterfall and has a Mediterranean climate.
What is the Drakensberg?
The movement of Africans out of Africa, scattered abroad largely as a result of the slave trade.
What is the African Diaspora?
This supranational organization helps African member countries maximize their economies.
What is the African Union?
The richest man in history, he was a West African emperor whose Hajj spread Islam throughout the region.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This seasonal wind pattern brings dry weather in winter from the north and wet weather in summer from the south.
What is a monsoon?