Vocabulary
Coastal Countries
Sahel Countries
Nigeria
Misc.
100
tropical tree whose seeds are used to make chocolate.
What is Cacao?
100
West African Country along the Gulf of Guinea.
What is Ghana?
100
In the Sahel how much precipation falls.
What is a litlle rain?
100
capital city of Nigeria?
What is Abuja?
100
a tropical grasslands with only a few trees.
What is savanna?
200
A group of houses surrounded by walls.
What is a Compound?
200
Capital city named after an United States President.
What is Monrovia?
200
Two former nomadic groups of the Sahel.
What is Tuareg and Fulani?
200
An ethnic group in Nigeria.
What is Yoruba?
200
A mineral salt used in fertilizers.
What is phosphate?
300
The process by which grassland become deserts.
What is desertification?
300
In 1822, the West African country of Liberia was founded by whom.
What is African Americans.
300
Landlocked country in West Africa.
What is Mali?
300
In Nigeria, weekly village markets are run by whom.
What is women?
300
A tropical tree with roots that extend above and below the water.
What is mangrove?
400
The Arabic word for border.
What is Sahel?
400
Sierra Leone in West Africa was founded as a home for who.
What is people freed from slavery?
400
Rain forests and mangrove swamps are found in West Africa's coastal countries.
What is shores?
400
What year did Nigeria become an independent nation.
What is 1960?
400
About 25% of the world's bauxite reserve exist in this country.
What is Guinea?
500
A dry, dusty wind from the Sahara.
What is harmattan?
500
Ancient Ghana prospered by this method.
What is taxing goods along trade routes?
500
Tropical rain forest climate of the coastal countries of West Africa is created by the Gulf of Guinea's what.
What is warm currents
500
In Nigeria, he was the first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
What is Wole Soyinka?
500
In 1957, this was the first country in West Africa to become independent.
What is Ghana?
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