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Use of power for personal gain
What is corruption?
Loss of forest cover when trees are cut down faster than they can grow back
What is deforestation?
Extremely dry desert with almost no rain
What is Arid?
Hot and rainy all year
What is Tropical Wet?
Hot all year with rainy and dry seasons
What is Tropical Wet and Dry?
A disease caused by mosquitoes implanting parasites in the blood
What is Malaria?
Land that can be used to grow crops
What is arable land?
The gradual transformation of arable land into desert
What is desertification?
Hot, rainy, summers and mild winters with some rain
Humid subtropical
Overgrazing, deforestation, and drought are effects of?
What is desertification?
Formed in 2002 to promote unity among African states and to increase development and end poverty
What is African Union?
A political and social movement to unite black Africans around the globe
What is Pan-Africanism?
an area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes that is home to animals such as lions and zebras
What is savanna?
A strip of dry land that divides the desert from wetter areas, but also has a short rain season
What is Sahel?
The need for more arable land is effects of?
What is deforestation?
The use of very small loans to small groups of individuals, often women, to stimulate economic development
What is Microcredit?
Body of public works, such as roads, bridges, and hospitals, that a country needs to support a modern economy
What is infrastructure?
Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in Africa
What is colonialism?
Europeans brought slaves from Africa and had them shipped to the Americas in return for goods produced
What is Atlantic Slave Trade?
Rival ethnic and religious groups placed together in the same nation
What is conflicts after colonialism?
To win prestige, get natural resources needed to produce goods, or expanded markets for goods made in factories
What is causes of European colonization of Africa?
Ignored locations of rival ethnic groups when drawing up borders, forced Africans to extract resources or grow cash crops
What is effects of European colonization?
Democracy, women’s rights, development of infrastructure, and development of social services (education and healthcare)
What is factors to promoting development in Africa?
Invisible line in Central Africa where the climate is hot and wet
What is equator?
Arid, Semiarid, Tropical Wet, Tropical Wet and Dry are examples of?
What is the four climate types in Western and Central Africa?