Landforms
The largest desert in Africa
What is the Sahara Desert?
The most profitable commodity in Africa.
What is oil?
This climate is found in the northern part of Africa.
What is desert climate?
An example of a grassland in Africa.
What is the Serengeti Plains?
The Arabic word meaning "shore of the desert."
What is Sahel?
The longest river in the world that is found in Africa.
What is the Nile River?
Three minerals that are mined for in Africa.
What are gold, platinum, and diamonds?
can be chromium, cobalt, copper, or phosphates as well.
Name the climate zone characterized by high amounts of rainfall and humidity, typically found near the equator.
What is the tropical rainforest climate?
Where most of the rainforest is located at in Africa.
What is the Congo Basin?
The shift of the desert.
What is desertification?
Huge cracks in earth where the land has sank to form long, thin valleys.
What is a rift valley?
Africa is the worlds largest producer of chromium, an element used to produce what?
What is stainless steel?
the percentage of tropical climate found in Africa.
What is 90%?
Where most of the animals live at in the rainforest.
What is the canopy?
Three causes of desertification.
What is overgrazing of vegetation by livestock, livestock trampling the soil, and farming.
The highest mountain in Africa.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
Africa's leading petroleum producers.
What is Nigeria, Libya, Algeria, and Angola.
What climate covers most of the continent and located in Serengeti and Tanzania?
What is the tropical grasslands?
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What farming method is destroyed over half of the rainforest in Africa?
What is slash-and-burn?
What benefits does the Aswan High Dam provide to the Egyptions?
What is regular supply of water, increased farmable land by 50%, helped Egypt avoid floods and droughts.
Africa is called a "_________ continent", because this landform covers most of Africa.
What is a plateau?
Africa's mineral wealth has not brought economic prosperity because of what 19th and 20th centuries rulers?
What is European Colonial Rulers?
The Mediterranean climate is located where in Africa?
What is the Northern and Southern tips of the continent.
What supports vegetation and wildlife, and is a critical resource for people living in the desert?
What is an oasis?
What did the Aswan Dam do to the soil around the Nile River?