Environmental Issues In Africa
What is the process of cutting down a large amount of trees or vegetation at once?
What is deforestation?
Where is the Sahara desert located in Africa?
Where is Northern Africa?
Supplying crops or soil with water through pipes, sprinklers, or valves underground.
What is Irrigation?
What is it called when substances like chemicals, parasites, or industrial waste contaminate water and make it unsafe to drink.
What is water pollution?
This is a biome that is a transitional zone between the Sahara and the Savanna.
What is the Sahel.
Heavily grazing animals to the point where vegetation or plants can no longer grow.
What is overgrazing?
When fertile, arable land is expanded into desert and no longer suitable for growing crops.
What is desertification?
Has the least population density in the world and is very dry and hot.
What is the Sahara
An area in a desert where you can find water.
What is an Oasis?
What is the definition of Unequal Distribution of Water?
When water is not evenly spread across an area or the world.
Which biome in Africa has yearly grass fires during the winter?
What is the Savanna
When crops are grown only to feed the farmer or their family.
What is Subsistence farming?
What area in Africa is mostly impacted by deforestation?
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
This biome has the most amount of rainfall in Africa and has thousands of species of animals.
What is the Tropical Rainforest(Congo Basin)?
A person who moves from place to place to find resources or food.
What is a nomad?