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West Africa WC2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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Stephenie