Landforms & Resources
What huge landforms lie throughout Africa's plateau?
What is basins?
Spread of dry conditions into moist areas that are next to deserts
What is desertification?
What is the single most important economic activity in Africa?
What is agriculture?
Which continent colonized Africa?
What is Europe?
What is a place called where ideas and innovations came together?
What is a cultural hearth?
What region is the Sahara desert located?
What is North Africa?
Which region in Africa experiences the most rainfall?
What is Central Africa?
Name at least one cause of desertification.
What is overgrazing, increasing population, and drilling for water?
Which body of water or landform supported the growth of ancient Egypt?
What is the Nile River?
What is one of the main economic activities of East Africa?
What is tourism?
A narrow band of dry grassland, running east to west on the southern edge of the Sahara, that is used for farming and herding.
What is the Sahel?
Where are aquifers located in the Sahara desert?
What is 6,000 ft. below surface?
What is the Arabic word for "shore of the Desert"?
What is Sahel?
Which country was the only East African country to avoid colonization?
What is Ethiopia?
Which region thrived off of gold and salt trade?
What is West Africa?
Which layer of the Congo Basin do most species live in?
What is the canopy?
What is night called sometimes in the tropics?
What is winter?
What occurs due to the lack of cleanup of the oil spills that take place in Africa?
What is fires and acid rain?
What is the major cultural influence in North Africa?
What is Islam?
What is the colorful weave with geometric features created by the Ashanti ethnic group?
What is the kente cloth?
A steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on top.
What is an escarpment?
What is destroying the forests in Central Africa?
What is slash and burn farming?
In what way are the people of Nigeria harming their environment?
What is oil spills?
What are societies where people rely on family lineage to govern themselves, rather than an elected government or monarchy?
What is stateless societies?
Which region of Africa has a strong slave-trading tradition?
What is West Africa?