Physical Geography
This river is the world's longest at about 4,160 miles and flows north through the Sahara into the Mediterranean.
The process by which fertile land becomes desert, often from drought, deforestation, or poor land use.
desertification
A farming community on the southern edge of the Sahara begins to lose crop yields and soils become sandy and infertile. Identify the process happening (use one vocabulary word).
desertification
The annual flooding of the Nile historically leaves rich alluvial soil in this triangular shaped deposit of sediment (landform) at the river's end
Most North Africans primarily follow this religion.
Islam
A crowded open air marketplace in North Africa
Souk
A traveler crosses a broad, flat stretch of land that lies immediately south of the Sahara. The area is semi-arid, supports seasonal grasses and some farming. What vocabulary term is this describing
Sahel
a large, mostly flat plain that is the transition zone between the Sahara and sub Saharan Africa
Wadis
The indigenous, earliest people of North Africa who are non-Arabic nomads are called this.
Berber
A body of permeable rock or sediment that stores and transmits groundwater.
aquifer
While traveling through a desert, you come upon a small, fertile area with palm trees and a cluster of houses built around a natural spring. People grow dates and a few vegetables there despite the surrounding arid landscape. Travelers stop here to rest and refill water before continuing long journeys across the sand.
Oasis
This lake that borders Niger and Chad has been shrinking and is a source of great conflict between the 2 nations
According to North African custom, how do people greet oen another?
By shaking hands and touching their hands to their hearts.
A crowded open air marmarketplace in North Africa
Sharia
Foreign countries often invest in areas rich in resources. This could threaten the ______________ of that nation.
Identify the peninsula that is geographically part of Asia but politically part of Egypt. The Suez Canal runs through it.
This Dam in Egypt is designed to control the flow of the Nile and it's construction was supported by the U.S.
form of folk music that originates in North Africa
Rai
Nomadic Arabic-speaking pastoralists traditionally living in deserts of North Africa and the Middle East.
Bedouin
Morocco forcibly acquired the Western Sahara and __________the territory.
annexed