Basins & Plateaus
Six of the area countries are ______, or have no direct access to a coast.
landlocked
This places has lack of water and it affects peoples lives.
Desert
What is it called where the climate is changing into desert?
desertification
East Africa sit mostly on?
plateaus
The growing population in West Africa has increased the demand for?
food crops
wildlife
The northern part of Sahara is what?
The grasslands
What is factors cause desertification?
climate change and overpopulation
Plate movement creates?
volcanoes
What did West Africa do to create more croplands and what is it called?
cut down forests, deofrestation
A ____ is a steep slope.
escarpment
The southern part of Sahara is what?
The savannas
What is it called when a deep valley is formed from when Earth's crust separated and broke apart?
rift valleys
What are the two most substantial elevated areas?
Ethiopia and Kenya
Areas of higher mountainous land found in West Africa are called?
highlands
The Great Escarpment is the steep slope from the?
plateau down to the coastal plains
This place is difficult to navigate, limited transportation through it, and isolating communities within them.
Rain forests
What is a semiarid grassland that separates the Shara in the north and the south.
The Sahel (saa HEL)
Which volcanoe is dormant in Kenya?
What did desertification cause?
soil unprotected and climate change
What river collects water from the entire south-central part of Africa?
Zambezi River
This place may have fertile soil, but rocky land making it difficult to farm.
Which place has limited surface water and is a major desert?
Kalahari
Which valcaone is 19,340 feet tall in Tanzania?
The series of sandstone plateaus is marked by?
rugged canyons