vocab
What is a basin?
A depression
What is Africa's nickname?
plateau continent
Nile and Congo
What is the number one resource in northern, and parts of central/eastern Africa?
petroleum/oil
What part of Africa has a rainy season that can last up to 6 months?
Western Central Africa - on the Equator (Congo River Basin)
What is long thin valley that results from a crack appearing in the earth from continental plates drifting apart?
rift valley
Name a blessing and a setback caused by the Aswan High Dam.
Blessing: creates electricity, provides irrigation to farmers, drinking water
Setback: decrease in farmlands (less silt), $ on fertilizer, relocation of people during construction, temple needed to be moved (treasures were lost), malaria & other diseases increased
Contains 16% of the world's freshwater and is the longest freshwater lake in the world.
Lake Tanganyika
What is the most common form of farming in Africa?
substitence farming
What's the term we use to describe the shift of the desert and the expansion of dry conditions into moist areas that are next to the desert?
desertification
What is an escarpment?
A steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on top.
What is the large peninsula of East Africa called?
Horn of Africa
Africa's highest point
Mt. Kilimanjaro
What is a precious metal mined in Africa?
gold, platiunum, copper, cobalt, iron ore, chromium
What is the Serengeti Plain?
It's located in Tanzania; a dry climate with hard soil that is a home to many animals
What is an aquifer?
A huge store of underground water
What means "shore of the desert" in Arabic?
Sahel
What are the three major deserts in Africa?
Kalahara, Namib, and Sahara
Why hasn't all of the abundant resources in Afria caused economic wealth?
Colonization after-effects: lack of infrastructure, corruption, ...
What two extremist groups did we take a look at - one in Nigeria, one in Ethiopia.
Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab
What is the term used to describe how farmers are destroying the rainforest to obtain farmland?
slash and burn method
What type of biome covers most of the continent?
tropical grassland
Where is the highest point in the Sahara?
The Tibesti Mountains
Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was able to make billions through the selling of oil in what country?
Libya
What is Rendsafe?
A safe way to disarm mines.