Landforms
Climates
Water
History
Vocabulary
100
We are studying landforms and history of Africa south of the ___.
What is Sahara?
100
The driest climate found in Africa.
What is desert.
100
The largest lake in Africa south of the Sahara.
What is Lake Victoria?
100
This continent was responsible for colonizing most of Africa.
What is Europe?
100
A crack in the Earth's crust.
What is fault?
200
Most of Africa is made up of this landform.
What is plateau?
200
The climate that has the most variety of species for both plants and animals.
What is tropical rainforest?
200
The River that helps to supply water to agricultural areas in the western part of Africa.
What is Niger River?
200
Government policy for the separation of the races.
What is the apartheid?
200
Towering waterfall.
What is cataract?
300
The most well known volcanic mountain in Africa.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
300
The largest savanna in Africa.
What is Serengeti Plain?
300
The inland lake that is shrinking due to droughts.
What is Lake Chad?
300
The right for all people to vote.
What is universal suffrage?
300
How clean something is?
What is sanitation?
400
Convergent boundaries cause this type of landform to be created.
What is mountains?
400
The climate area where grasslands turn into desert because of climate change and human activity.
What is steppe?
400
The river that meets the sea and provides transportation for much of the central and southern parts of Africa.
What is Congo River?
400
Many people in Africa became more educated and created this.
What is independence movement?
400
The definition of urbanization.
What is the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas?
500
Explain how the Great Rift Valley was created using vocabulary to describe the tectonic plates. (You must use at least one of the correct vocabulary to get the point).
What is divergent plates/boundary, the fault line below the Earth's crust?
500
Explain the difference between wet and dry climates. Also tell me what the two wet climates are and what the two dry climates are.
What is rainfall amount; wet: rainforest & savanna; dry: steppe & desert?
500
Explain the water sanitation of Africa south of the Sahara. give one cause of the sanitation and the effect it has on the people.
What is poor sanitation caused by lack of water treatment/ feces,bacteria, diseases travel in it/ can cause many health issue for the people?
500
Who was responsible for ending the apartheid and how was he able to accomplish this?
Who is Nelson Mandela and he became the first black president of South Africa?
500
Describe the word leach and how it applies to the tropical rainforest climate in Africa south of the Sahara?
What is it dissolve the nutrients and carries them away from the soil?