Physical Features
What ocean lies to the west of Africa?
Atlantic Ocean
This warm region lies near the equator and gets lots of rain all year. What type of climate does it have?
Tropical wet climate.
Which religion spread across Africa through trade with Arab merchants from North Africa?
Islam
Which precious metal is mined in Central and Southern Africa than anywhere else in the world?
Gold.
True or false: Africa has the fastest growing population in the world.
True.
What is the name of the largest island that is part of Africa?
Madagascar
What is the name of the vegetation zone, also called savanna, that covers about two-fifths of Africa and includes grasses, shrubs, and scattered trees?
Tropical grassland.
Which West African kingdom came first, before Mali and Songhai?
Ghana
Which resource is key to the economies of North and West Africa and is heavily exported to Europe?
Oil.
Does most of the population live in rural or urban areas?
Rural.
What river runs through the Sahara Desert and empties into the Mediterranean Sea?
The Nile River
What is the name of the major desert in North Africa that can go six or seven years without rain?
Sahara Desert.
The ______was home to one of the world’s earliest civilizations, known for pyramids and mummies.
Nile River Valley
_____ is when people move from place to place with their animals in search of food and water.
Nomadic Herding
About how many different lanugages are spoken in Africa?
About 2,000 different languages.
Name the four sub-regions of Africa.
North Africa, East Africa, West Africa, and Central and Southern Africa.
Which island has three climate zones, including tropical wet in the east and semiarid in the southwest?
Madagascar.
In what year did Ghana become the first Black African colony to gain independence?
1957
The majority of rural areas of Africa depend on....?
Subsistence farming.
What nearly divides Africa in half?
Which lake in East Africa is the longest freshwater lake in the world, and it lies near the Great Rift Valley?
Lake Tanganyika
What type of climate is found in the Ethiopian Highlands?
Highlands climate.
Which organization was formed in 2002 to promote peace, human rights, and health across Africa?
African Union
Which economic activity is growing throughout Africa?
Trade and Manufacturing.
List 3 things the ancient Egyptians did.
1. Invented a kind of paper.
2. Invented a form of picture writing.
3. Preserved the bodies of the dead as mummies.
4. Built pyramids.