Africa's Land and Water
The largest desert in Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The leader of the Russian Revolution.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
A meeting where European countries divided Africa without African input.
What is the Berlin Conference?
An organization that controls oil prices and production in the Middle East.
What is OPEC?
A country that has no access to an ocean or sea.
What is a landlocked country?
The longest river in Africa.
What is the Nile River?
The full name of the USSR.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
The European-drawn borders ignored ethnic groups, leading to conflicts in Africa after this.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Some Middle Eastern countries are wealthy from oil, while others struggle because of this.
What is unequal oil distribution?
Roads, bridges, and better transportation help this grow in a country.
What is trade?
A dense rainforest region in Africa that makes travel and trade difficult.
What is the Congo Basin?
A long period of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union without direct fighting.
What is the Cold War
Wars, weak governments, and economic struggles were problems faced by African nations after this.
What is independence?
A major challenge in the Middle East caused by deserts and low rainfall.
What is water scarcity?
Some Middle Eastern countries focus on selling this resource because it is their main export.
What is oil?
A large trench in Africa caused by tectonic plate movement.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
The Soviet Union controlled businesses and the economy under this system.
What is communism?
The only African country that was never colonized by Europe.
What is Ethiopia?
The process of removing salt from seawater to make it drinkable.
What is desalination?
An organization where African countries work together on economic and political issues.
What is the African Union?
Geographic features like mountains, deserts, and poor infrastructure make this difficult in Africa.
What is travel?
Economic problems and demands for independence led to this event in 1991.
What is the collapse of the Soviet Union?
European rule that left African economies dependent on raw materials and foreign trade.
What is colonization
Countries with large oil reserves can influence global trade and politics because of this.
What is oil wealth?
When a country runs out of natural resources, it struggles with this.
What is economic growth?