History
Landforms
Climate
Biomes and Resources
Misc.
Final Jeopardy
100
What region of Africa were slaves sold to European countries to be sent to North and South America?
West Africa
100
What landform separates north and south Africa?
Sahara Desert
100
Name of the area where arid climate turns into tropical climate.
Transition Zone
100
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Tropical Rainforest
100
Typical economic activity of women in rural areas.
Subsistence Farming
100
Mountain in North Africa that produces a pink, granite massif (a result of volcanic activity)
Ahaggar Mountains
200
What did European countries want with Africa?
Raw materials/extract resources
200
The Sahara Desert forces people in Egypt to live around what landform that is about 3% of the land in the country?
Nile River
200
What landform resulting from tectonic plate movement, creates a unique climate zone in East Africa?
Great Rift Valley
200
What resource is the most abundant in the Congo Basin?
Timber/Wood/Trees
200
Pyramids are found in what country?
Egypt
200
Name of the Empire that spread gold and salt across the Sahara Desert creating trade routes along the way.
Mali Empire
300
In which country was there a Genocide in 1994 between Hutus and Tutsi?
Rwanda
300
Why does the Great Rift Valley have fertile soil?
Volcanic activity
300
Due to lack of water and percipitation in North Africa, what are used to get water out of the ground through a well?
Aquifers
300
What biome zone would you find giraffes and lions?
Savanna
300
What region of the world does North Africa associate most closely with?
Southwest Asia/Arabia
300
The longest lake in the world located in East Africa.
Lake Tanganyika
400
Religion that is characterized by a belief in spirits in all of nature.
Animism
400
Connects the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea.
Suez Canal
400
Which area gets more precipitation?
North of the Sahel or South of the Sahel?
South
Sahel = Transition Zone
400
What is the second largest freshwater lake in the world?
Lake Victoria
400
What type of economy is described below.
- Bartering takes place
- Economic decisions based on customs, traditions and beliefs
- Limited growth, technology and innovation
Traditional Economy (practiced by ethnic groups in Africa)
400
Movement that led to many revolutions throughout SW Asia and North Africa trying to reduce the role of religion in government.
Arab Spring
500
Using the map below. What were created and used to spread Islam across North Africa?
Trade Routes
500
What region of Africa if the Serengeti and Great Rift Valley found in?
East Africa
500
What climate is found at the furthest southern edge of Africa?
Mediterranean
500
Term used to describe the conversion of fertile land into arid land.
Desertification
500
During the civil war in Sudan, what did both sides violate that the UN mandated in 1948?
Human Rights
500
Material used in glass making found in East Africa.
Soda Ash
600
What North African ethnic group maintains traidtional culture and is fully to semi nomdic?
Berbers
600
Mountains found in North Africa that create a Mediterranean climate on the North Coast of Morrocco and Algeria?
Atlas Mountains
600
What structure has reduced flooding on the Nile River area?
Aswan High Dam
600
Which country in North Africa built the "Great Man Made River"
Libya
600
What is the term of legal racial segregation that existed in South Africa as a continuation of European colonization.
Apartheid
600
Only country in West Africa that is not in the Transition Zone.
Cape Verde (Islands)