A sand covered plain that adheres to the following:
The Southern Region is considered as a desert; Northern Region receives more annual rainfall.
What is Kalahari Desert
100
Where does this region lie in?
What is Sahara and the Savannas
100
Who were the first two explorers to the Niger River?
Who are Mundo Park and the Lander Brothers; Mundo was the first one but was killed by citizen attacks, and the Lander Brothers finally discovered it in 1830.
100
How many people live in Lagos, Nigeria at its peak? (mid 1990s)
1.5 million
100
The Sahara Desert ranks this high in desert sizes after these two other deserts:
What is The third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic
200
Plants Inhabited in the Kalahari:
The annual rainfall supports the north most beneficially and only a certain group of plants can sustain because of the precipitation quantity
What is Shallow Rooted Annual Plants, Shrubs, and Grasses.
200
What affected the agricultural economy in 1960 of this area?
What is drought and weather
200
What is the gulf at the end of the Niger River with a couple of islands that include Sao Tome.
What is the Gulf of Guinea
200
Who is the explorer that read over 100 African books and came to Africa as an explorer?
Who is Henrey Stanley
200
The Sahara desert comprises this much land area on the Continent of Africa.
What is approximately 10 percent
300
Large Ethnic Groups:
These groups did not settle until the 18th Century and the reason for migration is because of chaos and slave trade.
What is the San and Bantu
300
What are some inhabitants in this region?
What is Lions, Hippos, Giraffes, and Cheetahs
300
What two bodies of water merge to form the Nile?
What is the Blue and White Nile; these merge at Khartoum, Sudan which goes to Alexandria, Egypt and at last to the Mediterranean Sea.
300
How many countries make the shape of America, and there is room to spare?
What are three countries
300
The hottest temperatures recorded in the Sahara were here, and this temperature.
What are 58 degrees centigrade, and Al Aziziyah, Libya
400
Who is the first explorer to traverse the desert with the help of natives to cross the aridity? (1849)
Who is Dr. David Livingstone
400
What best describes the Sahel
What is semiarid; a term used to describe regions with a climate that receives below the needed precipitation for evapotranspiration to occur
400
Who found the source of the Nile (1847) after his discovery of Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria
Who is John Speke
400
What is the country with the largest population?
What is Niger (104 million) ; not Egypt
400
Extremely arid and sparse grasslands respectively.
What do the north and south areas of the desert comprise of
500
Countries containing the Kalahari Desert
What is Botswana, Seth Africa, and Namibia
500
What is the daytime temperature of the Sahel on average basis?
What is greater than 80 degrees
500
What river is named after two countries?
What is the Congo River; Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo
500
How many ethnic groups are in Africa?
What are over 2000 ethnic groups
500
All the countries that have the Sahara in them.
What are Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia