Geography
The largest desert in the world
Sahara
What is fish farming called?
Aquaculture
Dominant religion of North Africa
Islam
The Suez Canal connects the Red Sea to what body of water?
Mediterranean Sea
The lifeblood of Egypt
Nile River
The transitional region between the Sahara and the jungles of Africa
Sahel
Ancient Sahel people traded what for gold?
Salt
Which people first settled in the Maghreb?
Berbers
Where do most people live in Northern Europe?
The Mediterranean Coast
North Africa has most in common with which region?
Flat desert areas covered in pebbles
Regs
The major crop of Mali, Egypt, and Chad
Cotton
The Christian minority that lives in Egypt
Copts
North Africans have a major problem with an onslaught of what pest?
Locusts
Annual rainfall in the Sahara
1 to 5 inches
What two countries have the best economies in North Africa?
Morocco & Tunisia
A culture where fathers and elders have the final say
patriarchal
This writing system was developed in Egypt
Hieroglyphics
The process whereby the grasses and trees of an area die out and are replaced by dry wilderness areas
desertification
This body of water has shrunk to one twentieth of its size
Lake Chad
Northern Africa can be divided into Egypt, the Sahel, and ___________-
Maghreb
The "eye of the Sahara" is located in this country
Mauritania
The staple food of the Sahel
Millet
What is happening to farmland in Eypt?
This kind of formation occurs when sediment accumulates at a Delta
alluvial deposits