Africa SS7G2&3 part1 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
This provides for the basic needs of the farmer’s family, with little or nothing left over to sell | subsistence farming |
The process of bringing water to dry land to use for farming or other purposes. | irrigation |
Climate zone in which most people live along the Mediterranean coast and work in tourism? | Sahara Desert |
Climate zone in which most people live around Lake Tanganyika and people could work in cities, oil industry or as farmers and herders | Rainforest |
Climate zone where most people live along the Atlantic coast and the Nile River? They depend on subsistence farming and uranium mining as just two ways of living | Sahel |
Climate zone where most people live along the coast and along the Nile River? They depend on subsistence farming, herding, and agriculture. | Savanna |
In the last 40 years due to drought and irrigation, which lake has shrunk 95%? | Lake Chad |
loss of forest from cutting down too many trees | deforestation |
What happens to the supply of clean water as the population grows in some countries? | the supply decreases |
cause- polluted water is killing the fish or making them unfit to eat. What is the effect? | effect- this is harming the fishing industry |
effect- countries grow slower than their neighbors and there is less trade. What is the cause? | when countries are landlocked, the people have to pay more and wait longer for what they need |
cause- Large cities consume too much water. What is the effect? | farming suffers; less food to trade and to eat. |
cause- large cities consume the water available. What is the effect? | effect- not enough water for irrigation and the farming suffers; less food to trade and eat |
cause- drought from the late 1960s to the early 1980s | effect- the Sahara Desert invaded the Sahel region and caused widespread desertification |
Name at least 3 of the 4 causes of desertification | poor farming practices, land clearing, overgrazing of livestock, draining of surface & underground water used for industry and home, and drought |
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