GEO Unit 9:Africa Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
2x size of California; 1/7 Africa's population | Nigeria |
won independence from France in 1962 | Algeria |
Qaddafi led this nation until a 2011 revolution | Libya |
white minority had control and most of wealth until 1990s equality movement | South Africa |
Masai and Kikuyu battle here | Kenya |
key desert in Africa | Sahara |
valuable cash crop in parts of Africa | peanuts |
open air street market in parts of Africa | Bazaar |
world's longest river | Nile River |
"pulling together" in Swahili | harambee |
leader of equality movement in South Africa | Nelson Mandela |
leader of Egypt who used Soviet Union to modernize | Abdel Nasser |
flat grassland of a tropical weathered region | savanna |
2 key cities of Egypt | Cairo and Alexandria |
overharvested and over-grazed land resulting in the loss of land and trees | deforestation |
sudden political and military takeover | coup |
UN and others battled for control; Mobutu gained power | DR Congo |
set of guidelines that are supposed to make your economy work better | structural adjustment program |
Massive droughts and floods hurt this nation in 2000-2001 | Mozambique |
Islamic groups are battling Ethiopian groups for power | Somalia |
world leader in fight against AIDS | Uganda |
South African battle between Afrikaners and British | Boer War |
large group of merchants who travel together for safety | caravan |
departure of trainted and educated white officials | white flight |
giving land from rich to poor | land redistribution |
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