Physical Geography
Most people in Egypt live around this physical feature
What is the Nile River?
What is East Africa?
What is a famine?
What is the African Union (AU)?
Overgrazing of animals & over-farming are 2 human causes of this
What is desertification?
A depression used to collect water, usually at the base of a river
What is a basin?
What are natural resources?
Tourism & Agriculture are the two main sectors of this region of Africa's economy
What is East Africa?
A series of protests fighting for democracy in Africa, especially Tunisia
What is the Arab Spring?
This is the narrow band of dry grassland running along the southern border of the Sahara
What is the Sahel?
What is the savanna?
What are the Masai & Kikuyu?
North Africa's economy is based off of this commodity; THINK "Black Gold"
What is oil/petroleum?
Poor economies in Africa is a result of this type of instability
What is political instability?
What is the Niger Delta?
The most moderate climates are in these two regions because of their distance from the Equator
What are Northern & Southern Africa?
Islam was spread to Africa through this
What is conquest and/or trade?
The measure of economic output of a country; West Africa has weak & strong economies as indicated by this
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
Africa's population is growing/shrinking (pick one)
What is Growing?
This type of infrastructure helps Egypt control the floodwaters of the Nile for irrigation, but is decreasing deposits of silt
What is the Aswan High Dam?
Oil/Petroleum, Coffee, Diamonds, Timber
What are some of Africa's natural resources?
A policy of racial segregation in South Africa ended with the aid of Nelson Mandela
What is apartheid?
The area to which people in Africa are relocating looking for economic opportunity
What are cities?
This is the primary political goal of African nations
What is democracy?
What is plantation farming?