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West Africa WC2

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