Water Pollution
Water pollution in Africa is caused by what?
What is waste?
What is it called when trees are cut down at large numbers?
What is logging?
The desert is doing what?
What is expanding/growing.
Woman and child must walk several miles for...
What is water?
The people here live in these.
What are traditional African villages?
Unclean what can cause what...
What is waterborne diseases?
Define deforestation.
Deforestation is where large numbers of trees are being cut down for economic benefits, homes, and land for farming.
What regions are at risk of becoming desert?
What is the Sahel and Savanna region.
When rain does not fall, what happens to crops?
What is they wither?
This is sparse in this region.
What is vegetation?
Clean water is basic for what?
What is health and sanitation?
What is a reason Africans are cutting down so many trees?
What is population growth and/or trade.
A solution to prevent desertification is...
What is replanting trees?
Define droughts...
Droughts are long periods of time with very little rainfall/water.
The rainforest is home to a wide variety of these.
What are plants and animals?
Millions of Africans are hospitalized yearly from what?
What is ingesting unsafe water?
Due to the amount of trees being cut down, what harmful gas increases in the air?
What is carbon dioxide?
Desertification has become what as the desert claims more land each year?
What is a loosing battle?
Because fetching water is so time-consuming, women are unable to do what?
What is work?
People who walk through the desert looking for an oasis for their livestock.
Who are nomadic herders/nomads?
Overpopulation and ____ __________ ________ have made life along Africa's water sources difficult...
What is poor sanitation regulations?
______ is exported all over the world is helps boost the economy of many African countries.
What is timber?
A majority of the desertification is the result of the _____ __ ______ rather than climate.
What is actions of people?
Who is mainly affected by unequal water distribution?
People who live far away from water or in an area that lacks water.
The African Savanna is located near this:
What is the Equator?