West and Central Africa
This semi-arid region lies south of the Sahara and often experiences drought.
What is the Sahel?
Nigeria is a major exporter of this resource.
What is oil?
This continent is known as the “Plateau Continent.”
What is Africa?
This is the largest lake in Africa.
What is Lake Victoria?
This region includes Somalia and is prone to drought and piracy.
What is the Horn of Africa?
This powerful West African empire was ruled by Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
This organization includes oil-producing countries like Nigeria.
What is OPEC?
This major desert separates North Africa from Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This river means “Great River” and flows 2,600 miles in West Africa.
What is the Niger River?
This East African kingdom was one of the first Christian kingdoms in Africa.
What is the Kingdom of Aksum?
This Central African rainforest is the second largest in the world.
What is the Congo Rainforest?
These precious stones caused civil wars in parts of Africa.
What are conflict diamonds?
These are steep cliffs separating coastal plains from the interior plateau.
What are escarpments?
This river creates Victoria Falls.
What is the Zambezi River?
This ancient kingdom rivaled Egypt and built pyramids in Nubia.
What is the Kingdom of Kush?
This Central African kingdom was an early trading power.
What is the Kingdom of Kongo?
South Africa is one of the world’s leading producers of this metal.
What is gold?
This 4,000-mile crack in Earth’s crust runs through eastern Africa.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
This fertile farming region forms where a river empties into the ocean.
What is a delta?
This Southern African country was ruled under apartheid until 1994.
What is South Africa?
These two trade goods made West African empires wealthy.
What are gold and salt?
This term describes when countries have valuable resources but remain poor due to corruption and conflict.
What is the resource curse?
This is Africa’s tallest mountain at 19,341 feet.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
This physical feature makes many African rivers difficult to travel.
What are cataracts?
This massive stone city in Southern Africa controlled gold trade centuries ago.
What is Great Zimbabwe?