Culture & Communication
Many Africans speak English or French because of this historical influence.
Colonization
This religion spread into Sub-Saharan Africa through missionaries and colonization.
Christianity
Limited access to these two systems makes development difficult in many countries.
Education & Health care
This condition occurs when people do not have enough food to survive.
Famine
This illegal activity harms wildlife by killing animals for profit.
Poaching
These are towns or cities where people go for services like healthcare, education, and trade.
Service centers
African borders were created during colonization with little regard for this.
Ethnic groups
Shifting cultivation moves farmland, while this type of farming stays in one place
Sedentary farming
This environmental condition makes farming very difficult due to lack of water.
Drought
This type of tourism protects the environment while bringing in money.
Ecotourism
This simplified language develops so people who speak different languages can communicate.
Pidgin
This term refers to the lasting effects of European control on African countries.
Colonial legacy
This type of crop is grown to be sold for profit rather than eaten.
Cash crop
Countries increase this by trading goods and depending on other regions.
Interdependence
These belief systems often focus on spirits and nature.
Traditional African religions
This process has helped reduce ethnic differences by blending cultures.
Intermarriage
This system of racial segregation existed in South Africa until the 1990s.
Apartheid
Roads, schools, and communication systems are all part of this.
Infrastructure
This is exceeded when too many people use land and resources.
Carrying capacity
Provide one example of a human activity that contributes to the environmental problems within the region?
- Mining and resource extraction
- Overgrazing
- Air pollution from wood and charcoal
- Rapid, unplanned urbanization
These common languages are important because they allow people from different groups to communicate.
Lingua francas
This leader helped end apartheid and became South Africa’s first Black president.
Nelson Mandela
These can slow industrial growth because countries must repay borrowed money
Foreign loans
This allows people to buy and sell goods online.
E-commerce
What is one action that countries within the region have taken to protect wildlife and natural resources?
(Think of a specific organization)
All African countries joined the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, committed to enacting laws protecting the environment and promoting sustainable development.
- I would also take other answers here