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West Africa WC2
Question | Answer |
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2nd Larges Continent | Africa |
3x the size of the United States | Mali |
how many nations | 54 |
list the 5 regions | west africa, central africa, north africa, east africa, and southern Africa |
Native Africans are known for their what? | Land |
Most of the land is? | Plateau |
temperatures are generally? | warm or hot |
Most Africans are what? | farmers or herders |
Languages are divided into what? | families |
There are over how many languages spoken in Africa? | 1,000 |
Percentage that is Tropics? | 80% |
Escarpement | steep cliffs |
cataracts | large waterfalls and rapids |
hydroelectric power | energy produced by moving water |
tropics | the area between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn |
leaching | heavy rain dissolve and wash away it's nutrients |
drought | prolonged periods of little or no rainfall |
desertification | the turning of semidesert land into desert |
pharaohs | rulers of ancient Egypt |
hieroglyphics | Egyptians form of writing |
plateaus | lies on different elevations |
great Rift Vally | eastern part, runs to the red sea |
Sahara | desert, largest |
pula | means "rain" |
Why is European languages spoken in Africa? | Because of colonial ties |
Hatshepsut | Was the ruler of ancient Egypt |
Olduvai Gorge is on the? | edge of the Great Rift Valley |
Was the earliest civilization in Afica | Nile Valley |
Polytheistic | Egyptians religion |
Achievements of the ancient Egyptians include? | the shaduf, hieroglyphics, a calendar, medical procedures, bronze, ect |
Chrisianity and Islam influenced? | North Africa |
Porto-Novo | Benin |
Nouakchott | Mauritania |
Yamoussoukro | Cote D'lvoire (Ivory Coast) |
Accra | Ghana |
Lome | Togo |
Abuja | Nigeria |
Niamey | Niger |
Dakar | Senegal |
Banjul | Gambia |
Bissau | Guinea-bussau |
Conakry | Guinea |
Freetown | Sierra Leone |
Munrovia | Liberia |
Ouagadougou | Burkina Faso |
Praia | Cape Verde |
Bamako | Mali |