A large country in Central Africa with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. This country is in the heart of the Rain Forest.
What is The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)?
100
When people are without water in certain areas of Africa
What is unequal distribution of water?
100
This desert is an area of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Is is an example of how poor farming practices and the destruction of trees and shrubs can lead to an expanding desert
What is The Sahel?
100
A region where grass is able to grow naturally. Ususlly there is not enough water to sustain trees and forest.
What is the Savanna?
200
A large North African country located along the banks of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean coast. The Nile River runs through this country and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Egypt?
200
The longest river in the world, however, overpopulation and poor sanitation regulations have made life along this river more difficult.
What is The Nile River?
200
The destruction of trees and other vegetation. This continues to be a problem in the Sahel and elsewhere in Africa.
What is Deforestation?
200
Found in parts of the worls that are warm and humid and usually in an area near the earth's equator.
What is the Rainforest?
300
This country is located along the eastern coast of Africa bordering the Indian Ocean. Known all over the world for its magnificent animal parks and it is located in the heart of the Savanna.
What is Kenya?
300
When farmers cut down vegetation and set it on fire to make more land for crops.
What is slash and burn?
300
Periods of little rainfall which causes people who live in these areas often face starvation and poverty.
What are droughts?
300
Region just south of the Sahara Desert. Separates the Sahara from the Rain Forest
What is the Sahel?
400
A large nation on the coast of West Africa that has nearly every kind of habitat found in Africa. The northern part of the country is close to the Sahara. It has a river running through it that has helped build it's major cities.
What is Nigeria?
400
When people go down into the ground to get gold or diamonds and they are tearing down trees to build roads
What is mining?
400
The process of the desert expanding into areas that had formerly been farmland. As the land is overused the soil becomes poor and powdery.
What is desertification?
400
The largest desert on earth. It covers over 3.5 million square miles and very few people are able to live there.
What is the Sahara?
500
Located at the very southern tip of the African continent. Most of the country is a broad plateau with large stretches of grasslands in the interior. It has some urban, rich areas and its near the Kalahari desert.
What is South Africa?
500
This happens when factories or people don't take care of the water sources they have available to them perhaps by littering or having an oil spill?
What is water pollution?
500
This is when people allow their animals to eat too much of the vegetation in Africa.
What is overgrazing?
500
The African rainforest lies close to this which is the reason why Africa is so hot.