Black History
Who invented the traffic light?
Garrett Morgan
What is the permanent, often intentional clearing or removal of trees and forests for human use, such as agriculture, urbanization, and logging.
What is Deforestation?
The longest river in Africa?
What is the Nile River?
Who was appointed supreme commander by the United Nations?
Douglas MacArthur
Who invented the home security system?
Marie Van Brittan Brown
is the degradation of dryland ecosystems—covering ~40% of Earth's land—into barren desert, driven by unsustainable agriculture, deforestation, overgrazing, and climate change. It threatens food security and livelihoods for over 2 billion people, causing massive soil loss and displacement, often affecting regions like the African Sahel and Asia.
What is desertification?
It is known as the "Cradle of Mankind".
What is Africa?
Along which parallel was the Korean peninsula divided in 1945.
38th
Who invented the Super soaker water gun?
Lonnie Johnson
What is name the of the two main regions in Africa?
North Africa and Sub-Saharan
These are warm, tropical grassland biomes with scattered trees and distinct wet/dry seasons, located near the equator in Africa, South America, Australia, and Asia
Savannas
What large feature dominates North Africa?
What is the Sahara Desert?
What is the part of Africa that is experiencing major problems with desertification?
What is Sahel?
Who was the first black woman to hold a pilot license, and is the earliest known Black person to earn an international pilot's license?
Bessie Coleman
Name the five climate zones in Africa.
What is the Sahara, Sahel, Savanna, Tropical rainforest, and Kalahari?
It is a critical global crisis where demand for freshwater exceeds available supply, affecting over 4 billion people annually.
What is water scarity?
Name one part of Africa that has fertile soil.
What is the Nile river region?
What are four main economic systems?
What are traditional, mixed, market and command?
Enslaved African in the early 1700s, introduced the concept of inoculation to American colonists, saving Boston from a smallpox epidemic
Onesimus
What is the best climate zones for agriculture in Africa?
What are the highlands of East Africa and the Mediterranean zones of North and South Africa?
What is the contamination of water bodies (lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers) by harmful substances like chemicals, sewage, and plastics, mostly driven by industrial, agricultural, and urban runoff
What is water pollution?
The absence of rainfall is referred to as
What is a drought?
Which president chose February to be Black History Month?
Gerald D. Ford