Unit 6 - Africa
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| What two deserts lie in the southern region of Africa? | show 🗑
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| show | Africa
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| show | 47 countries and 6 island nations.
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| What is the highest point in Africa? | show 🗑
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| What three climates does Madagascar have? | show 🗑
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| show | warm
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| show | warm, tropical
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| What is the largest desert in the world and in Africa? | show 🗑
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| show | Ethiopian Highlands, which has a highlands climate and the southern part with a tropical wet and dry climate.
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| show | Tropical Grassland or Savanna.
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| show | Sudan
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| show | Seychelles
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| North Africa is mainly | show 🗑
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| West Africa is | show 🗑
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| East Africa is | show 🗑
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| Central and Southern Africa is | show 🗑
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| show | 2,000 languages.
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| What languages are widely used? | show 🗑
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| Why is Africa called the birthplace of the human race? | show 🗑
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| Around 300 C.E., what three great kingdoms rise in Africa? | show 🗑
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| show | Trade across the Sahara of gold, ivory and slaves for copper and salt from Arab traders who also spread Islam.
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| show | Europeans
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| Where did the Portuguese set up their colony for gold? | show 🗑
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| show | Around 1850.
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| During 1700-1800, what made up most of Africa? | show 🗑
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| In 1957, a country rebelled against the European rule and was the first black African nations to gain independence. What was the country? | show 🗑
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| What conflicts did the newly Independent countries face? | show 🗑
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| show | help promote peace, human rights and improve public health.
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| show | 905 million people.
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| show | Christianity. Then Islamic and then Indigenous.
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| More than 1/2 of Africa's farmland is used for what? | show 🗑
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| Most Trade and Manufacturing is done in what country, in Africa? | show 🗑
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| What are the grasslands of North and East Africa used for? | show 🗑
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| show | Mining. Oil in the North and West. Diamond and Gold mines in the Cental and Southern portions.
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| show | The Sahel, which is mostly grassland.
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| show | the Niger River, which flows through the Sahel.
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| show | High Plateau in the center, with several low lying basins that four mighty rivers flow from.
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| The Sahel also contains- | show 🗑
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| show | Lake Tanganyika
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| show | Lake Victoria
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| What is the world's 9th largest lake? | show 🗑
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| show | the Congo Basin, containing the Congo River and the Zambezi River, which has many waterfalls including Victoria Falls.
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| show | Desert, with areas along the Mediterranean Sea with a Mediterranean Climate.
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| show | It varies from Tropical near the Equator, Marine West Coast on the Indian Ocean, Humid Subtropical in other coastal regions and Dry in the South.
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| show | landlocked
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| show | Benin
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| show | Porto Novo
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| show | Cotonou
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| show | stone barriers
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| Where do people in Burkina Faso get clean drinking water from? | show 🗑
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| show | Burkina Faso
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| It's a ____________ country. | show 🗑
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| It gets ____ from ___________. | show 🗑
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| Cameroon is also called | show 🗑
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| Cameroon is 180,000 square miles and is slightly larger than | show 🗑
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| show | Yaounde.
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| show | Oil Refining
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| 1/3 of Cameroon is an | show 🗑
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| show | Cocoa.
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| What two languages are mainly spoken in Cameroon? | show 🗑
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| What three religious groups are in Cameroon? | show 🗑
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| Cameroon is also called | show 🗑
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| show | 200 ethnic groups.
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| show | drilling.
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| Gambia and Senegal are along the | show 🗑
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| What is the smallest country in Africa? | show 🗑
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| show | Banjul
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| show | Dakar
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| show | largest - economic
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| show | French
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| show | subsistence
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| show | environment.
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| show | Muslim.
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| show | The Senegal River.
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| show | Humid Subtropical
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| show | Muslims - though some are Roman Catholic.
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| Guineas is _______ - ___________ and high in poverty. | show 🗑
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| show | Guinea
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| show | drinkable water.
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| Guinea has a high | show 🗑
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| show | Conakry
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| show | four
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| show | Freetown
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| show | It is a Subsistence Farming economy.
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| What other economic activity exists in Sierra Leone? | show 🗑
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| What country had a 10 year civil war, ending in 1999? | show 🗑
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| It is a haven for _____ ________. | show 🗑
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| What was Freetown chosen as in 1787? | show 🗑
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| show | Freed slaves.
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