North Africa
The longest river in the world
What is the Nile River?
The process of the desert spreading
What is desertification?
A landform in East AFrica formed by the movement of tectonic plates
What is the Great Rift Valley?
A disease spread by mosquitoes that causes fever, pain, and sometimes death in Central Africa
What is malaria?
The policy in South Africa of separation of the races
What is apartheid?
The largest desert in the world
What is the Sahara?
The king who went on a pilgrimage to Mecca
Who was Mansa Musa?
The source of the Nile River
What is Lake Victoria?
These groups of people sometimes fight each other in Central Africa
What are ethnic groups?
The first black man elected as President of South Africa
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The canal which connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas
What is the Suez Canal?
Kingdoms in West Africa became wealthy by trading gold for this mineral
What is salt?
Widespread hunger usually caused by drought or war
What is famine?
The process of European countries claiming sections in Africa
What is imperialism?
The two valuable minerals mined in South Africa
What are gold and diamonds?
The North African country in which pyramids are found
What is Egypt?
The strip of land which divides the desert from wetter regions
What is the Sahel?
The intentional destruction of a people or ethnic group
What is genocide?
These features block travel up and down rivers in Central Africa
What are waterfalls?
The empire which ruled much of Zimbabwe and Mozambique in the 1300s
What is the Shona Empire?
The small North African country (starting with a T) where the "Arab Spring" began
What is Tunisia?
The two most popular religions in West Africa
What are Christianity and Islam?
The highest mountain in Africa
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
The widest waterfalls in the world
What are Victoria Falls?
The island country off the southeastern coast of Africa which split from Africa starting 150 million years ago
What is Madagascar?