Landforms
Water
Oppression
Disease
Economics
100
The narrow band of grassland found along the southern edge of the Sahara.
What is the Sahel?
100
The world's longest river, providing more than 95% of Egyptians with water.
What is the Nile River?
100
A policy that calls for the complete separation of races, and allowed the white minority in South Africa to keep the best land and power.
What is apartheid?
100
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the virus that causes this disease; which was responsible for the deaths of 2.4 million Africans in the year 200.
What is acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
100
Agricultural or mining products that can be sold; for example copper, coffee, or cocoa.
What is a commodity?
200
Long, thin valleys that formed as a result of continental plates pulling apart.
What is Rift valleys?
200
A place in the desert where underground water comes to the surface, supporting vegetation and wildlife.
What is an oasis?
200
A Belgian that promoted interest in opening up the African interior to European trade, and also used forced labor to gather resources.
Who is King Leopold II?
200
An uncontrollable outbreak of a disease affecting a large population over a wide geographic area.
What is a pandemic?
200
Countries that rely on the revenue of one export for much of their earnings, which causes them to have unstable economies.
What is a "one-commodity" country?
300
A steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on top.
What is an escarpment?
300
Huge stores of underground water.
What is aquifers?
300
The leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after it gained independence that ruined their economy and used the army to maintain his power.
Who is Mobutu Sese Seko?
300
An often fatal infection that is caused by inadequate sanitation and lack of clean water.
What is cholera?
300
A major trading and commercial city of ancient Africa that was founded by a Phoenician Queen.
What is Carthage?
400
A tropical grassland, with a dry climate and hard soil, located in northern Tanzania
What is the Serengeti Plain?
400
Was built in Egypt to regulate the water supply along the Nile River.
What is the Aswan High Dam?
400
Was a leader of the African National Congress, and led a long struggle to end apartheid in South Africa
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
An often fatal disease that is carried by mosquitoes, has symptoms of chills and fevers, and has also become resistant to standard drug treatment.
What is malaria?
400
This helps stabilize economies by branching out and not depending on a single commodity.
What is diversify?
500
The largest desert in the world, located in northern Africa.
What is the Sahara?
500
Has resulted in the following benefits less flooding, more harvests each year, and increased farming land in Egypt. Also causing the problems of decreased fertility due to lack of silt, a rising water table, and increased outbreaks of malaria.
What is the Aswan High Dam.
500
Established the rules for dividing Africa among European nations. There were no African rulers invited to attend.
What is the Berlin Conference?
500
People that have AIDS are also likely to have this respiratory infection.
What is tuberculosis?
500
Africans did this heavily after independence to help build their economies.
What is borrowed?
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