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100
What is the name of the world's largest desert?
Sahara
100
What places are vital for life in the desert?
oases
100
What is the lifeblood of Egypt?
The Nile River
100
Why is phospate important?
Because it is an important ingredient in fertilizers
100
What commodity did the ancient Sahel peoples trade for gold?
salt
100
What word describes all the governments of the countries in this region?
instability
100
What is the dominant religion in North Africa?
Islam
100
What is the shortest route between Europe and the Indian and Pacific Oceans?
Suez Canal
100
What are the beliefs of folk Islam?
see page 322
200
Lake Chad has shrunk to ___ of its former size.
one-twentieth
200
It averages ten miles wide in the south.
Nile River Valley
200
What are flat desert areas covered with pebbles?
regs
200
What is the major crop for Mali, Egypt, and Chad?
cotton
200
What is the name of the region encompassing Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco?
the Maghreb
200
What two countries in North Africa have the best economies?
Morocco and Tunisia
200
What is a culture where fathers and elders have the final say called?
patriarchal
200
North Africans have a major problem with stopping swarms of what insects?
locusts
200
Explain the factors that may contribute to desertification.
see page 326
300
This is the Asian part of Egypt.
Sinai Peninsula
300
Most North Africans live along the ___.
Mediterranean Sea coast
300
What are the two main regions of Africa?
Saharan Africa and sub-Saharan Africa
300
Annual rainfall in the Shara ranges between ___.
one and five inches
300
What is the capital and largest city of Libya?
Tripoli
300
What is the most significant Bedouins tribe in North Africa?
the Tuaregs
300
What is the name of the large Christian minority who have lived in Egypt since shortly after the time of Christ?
Copts
300
What is the process whereby the grasses and trees of an area die out and are replaced by dry wilderness?
desertification
300
How did the Arab Spring start?
see page 319
400
This region covers most of Morocco.
Atlas Mountains
400
What is the capital of Mali and the larges city in the Sahel?
Bamako
400
It is interspersed with hamadas.
Sahar
400
In North Africa there are ___ resorts.
ski
400
Which peoples were the first settlers in Maghreb?
the Berbers
400
The ___ are the most significant people group in Mauritania.
Moors
400
What is a staple food of the Sahel?
millet
400
___ is gradually spreading southward.
The Sahara
400
Can you label the countries of Northern Africa, plus the Mediterranean Sea?
500
Wha is the name of the transitional region between the Sahara and the Jungles of Africa?
the Sahel
500
What sediment accumulates at a delta?
alluvial deposits
500
Parts of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Chad are in this region.
Northern Sahel
500
What is the farming of fish called?
aquaculture
500
What is happening to farmland in Egypt?
It is being lost to urbanization.