Biomes
The largest hot desert in the world
What is The Sahara Desert?
A main cause of water pollution in Africa
What is Agricultural runoff, industrial pollution, and/or human pollution?
The region that has the most amount of clean water in Africa
What is northern Africa?
A major environmental issue in many African nations
What is Deforestation?
The process by which dry land becomes desert
What is desertification?
The biome that is most at risk of deforestation
What is The Tropical Rainforest?
Challenge affecting Africas water security
What is water pollution?
The lack of water in one area when another area has too much water
What is unequal water distribution?
The estimated percent of all plant species that have been found
What is 5-25%
The way humans can cause desertification
What is clearing of trees and/or the overgrazing of livestock?
Somebody who moves around a lot to find fresh pasture for their livestock
(They make up all of the Sahara's population)
What are nomads/nomadic tribes?
The cause of waterborne diseases
What is drinking contaminated or dirty water?
The reason millions of women in Africa walk many miles each day to find water
What is unequal water distribution?
Someone who illegally cuts down trees to sell them on the black market
What are tree poachers?
The biome that is most at risk of desertification
What is the Sahel?
The animal that is used for trade in the Sahara
What is a camel?
The number of children that die each day due to drinking unclean water
What is about 5,000?
A large part of the poverty in Africa is due to...
What is the remoteness of water?
The number of years that scientists estimate there will be no more forests on Earth
What is about 100 years?
Because of Africa's growing population, there is a larger demand for what...
What is water?
A biome that is made of mostly grassland
What is The Savanna?
An effect of Africa's growing population in terms of water
There aren't many areas where water is available, so people are getting desperate and drinking dirty water.
A huge effect of unequal water distribution in Africa
What is poverty/low standard of living?
The process of keeping nutrients in the soil by rotating different crops
What is crop rotation?
What it's called when an area goes a long time without any water
What is a drought?