The name of the semidesert region south of the Sahara desert.
What is the Sahel?
100
Percent amount of how much of the African continent is rainforest.
What is 8%?
100
Why is this area described as the most varied climate zone?
Close to the rain forests, the savanna is heavily forested. Nearer to deserts, grasslands are more open and have little vegetation.
100
Percent of Africa covered by the desert.
What is 30%?
100
Largest lake in Africa and chief reservoir of the Nile River.
What is Lake Victoria?
200
The two permanent water sources which make agriculture possible in the Sahel.
What are the Niger River and Lake Chad?
200
Rainforest areas are located mainly along this line of latitude.
What is the equator?
200
The savanna spreads north and south from which climactic zone?
What is the rain forest?
200
The names of any three African deserts
What are Sahara, Kalahari, Namib, and Kenya-Somali Desert?
200
The geological fault system that ranges in elevation from 1300 feet below sea level at the Dead Sea to 6000 feet above sea level in Southern Kenya.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
300
Two fauna that can survive in the grasslands of semi arid regions.
What are tortoises and camels.
300
Two words, beginning with w, that best describe the type of climate in the rainforest.
What are wet and warm.
300
The length of a typical rainy season in the savanna?
What is 4-8 months long?
300
The characteristic of animals that live in the deserts.
What is they are nocturnal?
300
Home to the largest delta in Africa, this river empties into the Atlantic Ocean and runs through four West African countries.
What is the Niger?
400
Most of the inhabitants of a semi arid region follow this lifestyle.
What is pastoral?
400
Another word for hoofed animals AND the name of the fly which is attracted to these animals.
What are ungulates and tse tse flies?
400
The animals and predators of the savanna.
What are zebras, gazelles, giraffes (ungulates) and lions, cheetahs?
400
Hunters and gatherers who inhabit the Kalahari are know as ...
What is bushmen?
400
The body of water links the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Red Sea?
500
Name one way in which people gather water in a semi arid region.
What is using wells or waterholes?
500
Describe the role of men and women in surviving the rainforest environment.
Men hunt, women and girls fish, women collect plant life.
500
Describe houses typical to the savanna environment.
Each building operates as a separate room, constructed out of available natural materials such as mud walls, wooden poles, animals skins (hides), bundled grass roofs.
500
A way in which people collect water in a desert environment.
What is collect dew off of plant leaves?
500
The highest mountain in Africa, which is an extinct volcano.