Question | Answer |
What is the population in Sub-Saharan Africa? | Nearly 865 million people |
How many states are there in Africa? | 49 states, with South Sudan being the newest. |
What are the most populous states? | Nigeria and Ethiopia |
When was the post colonial period? | 1950s to 1970s |
What type of population live in Sub-Saharan Africa? | poor, rural, young |
What kind of continent is it? | Plateau Continent |
What is a rift valley? | Rift Valleys are a surface landscape where two tectonic plates are diverging or moving apart. Rift valleys are depressions or a large valley. Most of the major lakes are on rift valleys. (except Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria is not on a rift valley) |
What is the lowveld? | Lowveld is a coastal plane around Africa. (Name given by Dutch.) |
What is the tallest mountain in Sub-Saharan Africa and where is it located? | Mt. Kilimanjario in Tanzania
(Mt. Kenya is the second highest) |
What is the highveld? | higher elevation |
Name the Major Rivers. | Nile, Congo, Niger, Zambezi.
(also, rivers are atypical due to plateau character) |
What is the average elevation? | 1000 feet |
What climates are found in Africa? | Tropical climate & forest, Savanna, Desert |
Why is the Kalahari not considered to be desert? | The Kalahari is not dry enough to be a desert. To be a desert, the place must receive more than 10 inches of rainfall a year. |
How is the soil in Africa? | It's very infertile, except around the rift valleys. |
What is desertification? | An expansion of desert due to human-induced degradation. |
What is the Sahel? | The zone of transition between Sahara to the north and wetter savannas to the south. |
What is transhumance? | The movement of animals between wet and dry season pasture. |
What are the causes of desertification? | peanut farming, overgrazing from cows and goats |
What is the cause of deforestation in the Savanna climate? | Principle biofuels like wood and charcoal are used for cooking. |
What are the solutions to deforestation in the Savanna climate? | NGOs and Wangari Maathai |
What are NGOs? | Non-government organizations |
Who is Wangari Maathai? | Kenayan woman who started the Green Belt Movement |
What country (in the Tropical Rain Forest Climate) has the worst deforestation? | Madagascar |
What part of Africa has limited wildlife due to population? | West Africa (the bulge) |
What two countries have a lot of animals, tourism, and hunting? | Kenya and Bostwana |
What part/countries in Africa has threaten wildlife? | East Africa, specifically Kenya and Tanzania |
What part/country has the most secure wildlife area? | Southern Africa, specifically Bostwana |
What is the international trade policy for ivory? | banned in 1989, modified in 1990 to allow for limited sales (Kenya and Tanzania were selling it in the black market) |
What areas are most vulnerable to Global Warming? | the Sahel, southern savanna (Zambia and Zimbabwe), the Horn of Africa |
How will global warming affect those areas? | Food security. |
Who are competing in Sudan and Darfur as a result of global warming? | farmers and pastoralists |