History
What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference in 1884?
to regulate European colonization in 1884, or divide up the continent for European countries to control.
What is a nuclear family?
family consisting of a mother, father, and their children.
Why do animals roam for part of each year in this region?
In search of water and vegetation as areas dry up in the dry months.
What is desertification?
The destruction of land in arid and semi-arid areas caused by climate change and human activity
land drying out and becoming infertile, causing desert areas to grow
What happened when they built the Akosombo Dam on the Volta River?
It flooded more than 700 villages forcing those people to move to new homes.
Where are nuclear families rapidly replacing extended families in the Transition zone?
urban areas, cities, towns, etc.
Which river has many names but all of them mean "great river"?
The Niger River
What is one cause of desertification?
drought, poor agricultural practices, humans overusing the land, climate change.
Which country had a decades long war over whether the government should be religious or secular that ended in 2005.
Sudan
How do most people make their living in this region?
subsistence farming and semi-nomadic herding
What is a Transition Zone?
An area in which the properties of the land undergo a radical change
What challenge in the Transition Zone makes it very hard to stop desertification?
rapidly growing population that needs to be fed.
population is expected to double in the next 30 years
Much of the history of this region has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, which is called _____.
Oral tradition
What is an animist religion?`
The traditional religious belief in which nature and objects, such as animals and mountains, are thought to have spirits
A body of water that was once a major source of freshwater, but is now significantly depleted by drought and demand
Lake Chad
What is the Great Green Wall?
trees planted to block desert winds which dry out the soil, a plan to stop desertification.
Why did the Berlin Conference cause problems for African countries?
European countries made up boundaries without considering historical, cultural, religious differences. It created conflict by forcing very different cultures to live together.
What is a patriarchal society?
headed by men or male family members
One of the largest human-made lakes in the world
Lake Volta
Many Africans do not have access to clean water, and only 1/4 of the people in this region have access to proper __________.
Sanitation, disposal of waste products