Africa Physical Geography Test Cards
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Sahara Desert | the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa |
| Nile River | The world's longest river, which flows northward through East Africa into the Mediterranean Sea |
| Niger River | a river flowing from western Africa into the Gulf of Guinea |
| Zambezi River | a river in southern Africa, flowing east through Zimbabwe and Mozambique into the Indian Ocean. |
| Savanna | an area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes |
| Economy | system by which goods and services are produced and distributed to meet people's needs |
| Great Rift Valley | giant fault line or crack in the Earth' s crust which runs from the Red Sea to the Zambezi River |
| Sahel | a strip of dry grasslands on the southern border of the Sahara; also known as "the shore of the desert" |
| Malaria | a disease caused by mosquitoes implanting parasites in the blood |
| Sleeping Sickness | a potentially fatal disease caused by parasites carried by tsetse fly |
| Diversify | to add variety |
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