Africa Geography Quiz
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- climate zones
- tropical wet, tropical wet and dry, desert, medditteranean
- deserts
- SAHARA!, Kalahari, Namib
- natural resources
- Diamonds, gold, oil, copper, cobalt, silver, rich soil, abundant water, salt.
- drought
- long period without rain
- Mansa Musa
- king of mali, spread Islam and based justice system on Koran, expanded empire, captured salt mines
- mountains
- Atlas, Drakensburg, Kilamanjaro
- nuclear family
- wife, husband, children
- rivers
- Nile, Congo, Niger, Zambezi; provides hyrdroelectric power and transportation
- plateau
- huge, flat surface; sometimes surrounded by large basins, swamps, lakes
- desertification
- turning semi-desert land into desert
- regions
- North, South, East, West, Central
- extended family
- aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, nieces, nephews, etc.
- racism
- belief that one racial group is superior to another
- ethnocentrism
- judging other cultures by the standards of one's own culture
- culture
- language, technology, government, skills learned, free time
- language
- if you lose this, you will lose your culture
- leaching
- too much washes away soil's nutrients