Vocab
Boundaries, cities, and countries are examples of
What is political geography
A dry, barren area of land, especially one covered with sand, that is characteristically desolate, waterless, and without vegetation
What is a desert?
Africa is broken up into 5 sections - what are these sections?
What is North, South, East, West, & Central Africa
Occupation of European Powers over Africa
What is The Partition of Africa?
What is gold, diamonds, oil, palm oil, gas, uranium, or gas?
The understanding that everyone is unique, and recognizing our individual differences.
What is diversity?
a country's collective means of supporting itself or becoming wealthier, as represented by its reserves of minerals, land, and other assets.
What is a resource?
Largest hot desert in the world that spans through most of Northern Africa
What is the Sahara Desert?
This continent invaded Africa during the partition of Africa in 1881-1914
What is Europe?
During the 16th centuary, Portuguese exploreres became engaged in the kidnapping and forced work of Africans during what is known as
What is the slave trade?
A community or population made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.
what is an ethnic group?
A low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it.
What is a valley?
tropical grassland with warm temperatures year round and seasonal rainfall.
What is the African Savannah?
This type of country was supposed to have many colonies to increase its wealth and importance around the world.
What is a strong country?
What is 1501-1600 OR 1500-1599?
The branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes
What is physical geography?
A luxuriant, dense forests rich in biodiversity, found typically in tropical areas with consistently heavy rainfall
What is a rainforest?
The largest river in Africa
What is The Nile River?
The most prominent lasting effect of the Partition of Africa is
What is ethnic conflict?
An area of high or mountainous land
What is a highland?
System were a strong country takes wealth and raw materials from another country
What is Imperalism?
branch of the East African Rift that runs through Ethiopian highlands
What is the Great Rift Valley?
This conference regulated the colonozation and trade in Africa from European Powers during the New Imperialism period
What is The Berlin Conference?
The imfamous slave trade that lasted from the 1500s to the mid 1800s, in which slaves were traded in a triangular route between Africa to Europe, Europe to America, and back to Europe is known as the
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?