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14 Cards in this Set
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most of the expanse of SubSaharan Africa rests on a what?
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plateau
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only parts of continent where the slope of Africa's coast does not drop steeply and sharply at the shoreline
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Liberia, Ghana, and the Ivory coast
and Mozambique |
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two large and dangerous deserts that lie in the North and SouthWest of Africa
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the Sahara
and the Kalahari |
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name some of the features of Africa that made it hard on trade and exploration for many years
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steep coast(not many ports)
some big freakin deserts most of the rivers were only navigable for a few miles very mountainous with a lot of thick rain forests the dry grasslands and pretty much everything else....... |
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longest river in the world........?
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Nile
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formed when a part of the plateau sank in, now filled with numerous narrow lakes
its a steep sided structural crack |
the rift valley
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-vast forests where more than 100 inches of rain are recieved each year
-a thick growth of plants in a tropical rain forest wherever sunlight penetrates the dense umbrella of trees and reaches the jungle floor(who writes this stuff?) |
tropical rain forests(big freaking duh)
jungle (i didnt know that!!) |
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mosquitos transmit ______ and _____?
this fly carries ______ sickness (whatever th h that means.......) |
malaria yellow fever
tsetse sleeping |
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some really tall mountains in Africa
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Kenya
and Kilimanjaro |
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a vast area of relatively dry grasslands is called __________
one that streches across Africa directly South of the Sahara is the____? |
savannas
Sahel |
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scholars who study languages(if u get this wrong......)
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linguists
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a family of closely related languages spoken in many parts of Africa
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Bantu
i dont know why im doing this 4 u punks........ |
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oral traditions
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poems, songs, or stories passed by word of mouth from 1 generation to another
did anyone besides me notice that the Spanish vacation vocab contains WAAAY too many sexual inuendos? |
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these things may show that Africa and China may hav previously had a cultural exchange (so I could be ASIAN.......wow)
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xylophone build and tuning
and bananas which are native 2 asia |