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Africa vocabulary words
1. Africa is the ______largest continent in the world.
2. ______is the most populated country in Africa.
3. What is the most common language spoken in Africa?
4. What happened as a result of the Berlin Conference?
5. Were African leaders invited to attend the Conference?
6. What did the Berlin Conference do?
7. How is the Berlin Conference viewed today with the conflicts in Africa?
8. Sahel in Arabic means ______.
9. Where is the Sahel located?
10. The majority of the people are ______.
11. ______is practiced in the north and ______is practiced in
the south.
12. List 4 causes of desertification:
A.
B.
C.
D.
13. What are some things that can be done to help stop desertification?
A.
B.
C.
D.
14. What impact has the Aswan High Dam had on Egypt and the region?
15. List 2 facts about the Nile River:
A.
B.
16. List 2 facts about the Congo River:
A.
B.
17. List 2 facts about Mount Kilimanjaro:
A.
B.
18. Olduvai George contains continuous known record of ______.
19. List 2 facts about the Serengeti Plain:
A.
B.
20. List 2 facts about Serengeti National Park:
A.
B.
21. Why are people concerned about building a road through the park?
22. List 2 facts about Lake Victoria:
A.
B.
23. List 3 facts of the Great Rift Valley:
A.
B.
C.
24. List 2 facts about the Kalahari Desert:
A.
B.
25. Where is Aksum located today?
26. Aksum was an important ______.
27. When did apartheid begin in South Africa?
28. What was apartheid?
29. List 2 facts about Nelson Mandela:
A.
B.
30. Nelson Mandela spent ______years in prison.
31. List 2 facts about Desmund Tutu:
A.
B.
32. Describe epidemic:
33. Describe pandemic:
34. Describe genocide:
35. ______of all malaria cases are in Sub-Sahara Africa.
36. Malaria is Africa’s ______widely spread disease.
37. What are some ways to prevent people from getting malaria?
A.
B.
C.
38. ______of the world’s adult AIDS cases are in Africa.
39. Africa has ______of the world’s children’s AIDS cases.
40. ______is the leading cause of death in Sub-Saharan Africa.
41. What impact has AIDS had on African countries?
A.
B.
C.
42. List 3 facts about the Maasai:
A.
B.
C.
43. Why was the African Union (AU) created?
44. What is the purpose of the African Union (AU)?
45. Idi Amin was President of ______from 1971 – 1979.
46. Why is Idi Amin considered to be a ruthless killer?
47. What impact did Mansa Musa have on Mali?
48. What was the Bantu Migration?
49. ______is the poorest country in the world.
50. What has the United Nations done to try to stop the sale of diamonds from Sierra Leone?
51. Define stateless society:
52. Define stateless nation:
53. Define cash crop:
54. Define cholera:
55: Define dictatorship: