Physical Geo
name of the man-made waterway in Egypt that connects the Red and Mediterranean Seas.
What is the Suez Canal?
this territory is not yet recognized as an independent country.
What is Western Sahara?
A pool of surface water fed by an underground source.
What is an oasis?
This is the largest and most common religion in North Africa.
What is Islam?
An economy that includes a mix of many different economic activities.
What is diversified?
mountain range that runs along the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.
What are the Atlas Mts.?
this is the most populated city in North Africa.
What is Cairo?
One of two abundant natural energy resources found in North Africa.
What are oil or natural gas?
An open-air market.
What is a souk?
This is the reason most migrants leave North Africa for Europe.
What are better jobs?
name of the interior climate of North Africa.
What is arid or desert?
People who move from place to place in search of food.
Who are nomads?
The scarcest resource in North Africa necessary to meet basic human needs.
What is fresh water?
a common Moroccan food made from wheat.
What is couscous?
Despite a diversified economy, Morocco suffers from these two economic problems.
What is poverty and unemployment?
An area formed by soil deposits that build up as river water slows down.
What is a delta?
Among the three ethnic groups of North Africa, this group is NOT native to the region but comes from the Middle East.
What are Arabs?
an underground source of water found in the cracks between rocks.
What is an aquifer?
an example of a minority religion in North Africa?
What are Christianity or Judaism?
This is one of the three countries of North Africa that produces the most migrants to Europe.
What are Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia?
name of the low-lying region that is located in the northwestern corner of Egypt.
What is the Qattara Depression?
A nomadic ethnic group native to North Africa.
What are Berbers?
The fellaheen are important to the economy of Egypt because they are responsible for this.
What is agriculture or farming?
the name of the type of Christians common in North Africa?
What are Coptic Christians?
These poor farmers in Egypt work in their fields with only hand tools and animals to help them.
What are fellaheen?