Africa: South of the Sahara Study Guide
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Stretching from Syria to Mozambique, the Great Rift Valley is a large depression in the Earth's surface formed by shifting tectonic plates. | Land forms |
| Sahara, Kalahari, and Namib | Name three deserts in Africa |
| The term for when long periods of drought and land use destroy the vegetation: desertification. This is occurring at Lake Chad. | Water Systems |
| Lake Chad, Lake Victoria, and Lake Tanganyika. | Lakes in Africa |
| Niger, Congo, and Nile. | Rivers in Africa |
| Choose five: minerals, oil, diamonds, zinc, water, solar power, gold, precious gems, iron ore, copper, and uranium. | Natural Resources |
| Tropical wet climate zone is located near the equator | Tropical Climates 1 |
| Tropical dry climate zone has grasslands with scattered trees, known as savanna. | Tropical Climates 2 |
| The Serengeti Plain is one of the world's largest savanna plains. | Tropical Climates 3 |
| The band of dry land extending from Senegal to Sudan is known as the Sahel. | Tropical Climates 4 |
| 1 Christianity 2 Islam | Religion in the Sahel |
| Variety | Ethnic Groups in the Sahel |
| Large | Arab and Muslim Population in The Sahel |
| Gold and Salt | Two Major Exports in The Sahel |
| Generally low | Literacy and Education Rate in the Sahel |
| Darfur | The Major Humanitarian Crisis in the Sahel |
| Nomads | A Large Number of People in the Sahel Live As |
| Starvation (problem) | High Population Growth East Africa |
| Islamic and Arab | High Population East Africa |
| Islam and Christian | Major Religions East Africa |
| Varied | Ethnic Groups East Africa |
| Burundi, Rwanda, 1994 | Internal Conflict (where and when) East Africa |
| Diverse | Ethnic Groups in West Africa |
| Urbanization=the act of going to cities | The Term for the Movement of People from Rural Areas to Cities West Africa |
| High density near rivers and coastal plains and low density near deserts/rain forests. | Population Distribution Uneven West Africa |
| 1 Islam 2 Christian | Major Religions West Africa |
| Music and dance. | Two Cultural Activities in West Africa |
| When large number of ethnic groups were pushed together by Europeans. | Conflict (where and what) West Africa |
| Ghana | West Africa High Literacy Rate in |
| Rain forests. | Central Africa Forests |
| 100s | Ethnic Groups Central Africa |
| Rural | Central Africa Mostly (living in country, not city) |
| Slave | Center of Certain Type of Trading Central Africa |
| 1 Christianity 2 Traditional African | Central Africa Religions |
| Dictatorship | Instability After Independence Central Africa |
| Many | Southern Africa Ethnicity |
| Apartheid | The Term for the Separation of the Races in South Africa |
| Varied | Population Density South Africa |
| Gold and diamonds. | Major Exports in Southern Africa |
| Christianity | Religion in Southern Africa |
| AIDS, 70 | A Certain Percentage of All People with this Disease live In South Africa (percentage and disease) |
| Choose three:Religions, Education, Poverty, Language, European Colonization, HIV, AIDS Disease, Instability After Independence, Population/Density Near Water | Three Similarities Between Regions |
| Choose three: Stability of government now, population density, literacy rate/education/high Ghana/low Niger, Exports, climates, urbanization, ethnicity, culture expression | Three Differences Between the Regions |
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