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What are 4 facts about the Suez Canal?
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Ships pay tolls to use it, its a major source of transportation , it helps avoid long trips around Africa, & is one of the busiest waterways in the world.
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About what percent of Egyptians are farmers?
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About 40 percent
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What do farmers grow?
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Cotton, vegetables, grain, and fruit
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There are 4 things
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Where is the farmland limited to?
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The Nile River Valley and the Nile River Delta
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What do farmers do to keep the soil healthy and why can it be a problem?
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The farmers fertalize the soil to keep it healthy and its a problem because its expensive.
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Why is over watering a problem?
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It brings harmful salt to the surface of the soil.
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What is Egypt forced to do because of salt rising to the surface?
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Import most of its food
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What would the debate over Islam in the country possibly cause? Would it be bad or good
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It could possibly cause a loss in tourism which would be bad
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What do some Egyptians want their countries to do?
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Remain leader among the Arab countries or make life easier for Egyptians living at home
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What is the most populas country in North Africa?
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Egypt
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More than half of Egyptians live in what?
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Small villages and other rural areas
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Most rural Egyptian farmers are called what?
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Fellahin
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If Egyptians are not farmers then what are they usually working in?
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oil rich countries
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What is Egypt's largest city?
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Cairo
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It is also egypt's capital
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How many people live in Cairo?
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Over 10 million
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How long ago was Cairo founded and where was it founded?
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It was founded about 1000 years ago along the Nile River
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Cairo is a mixture of what?
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Modern buildings and mud-brick houses
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Types of buildings
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What 2 things are a series of problems in Cairo?
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Traffic and pollution
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How many people does Alexandria have?
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Over 4 million
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Where is Alexandria located?
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In the Nile Delta along the Mediterranean coast
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Alexandria is a major what?
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Seaport
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What are the 3 main industries in Alexandria?
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Textiles, tourism, & oil
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What is one of the main sources of income?
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The Suez Canal
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How many people live in Egypt?
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Over 67 million people
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TRUE OR FALSE:
98% of Egyptians live in a comfortable manner? |
False. Many Egyptians live in poverty.
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Weat Africa is a large region of what?
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Plains
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What landforms does this region have?
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Mountains.
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How many najor climate zones are there?
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4
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What is the first climate?
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The Sahara
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The Sahara is the world's largest what?
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desert.
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What is the second zone?
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sahel
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Does rainfall vary greatly in the Sahel zone?
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Yes.
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What is blown down from the Sahara to the Sahel zone?
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The harmattan which is a dry, dusty wind
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What is the third zone?
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The Savanna.
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The tsetse fly carries what sickness in the Savanna zone?
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Sleeping sickness.
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What is the fourth climate zone?
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The Coast and Forest.
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What kind of climate is in the fourth zone?
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A wet, humid cliamate.
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What is the most important river in Weat Africa?
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The Niger River.
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How many miles does the Niger River flow east for?
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2,600 miles
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Where does the Niger River empty into ?
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The Gulf of Guinea
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Half of Nigeria's coastline is what?
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The Niger's delta.
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What are West Africa's minerals?
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Dimonds, Gold, Iron Ore, Manganese, and Bauxite.
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There are 4.
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What is Nigeria's major export and it makes up what percent of Nigeria's exports?
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Oil and it makes up about 95%
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Most of what we know of West Africa comes from what?
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Archeology
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What is archeology?
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The study of the remains and ruins of past cultures.
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Where were the earliest trading towns in West Africa?
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Niger's Inland Delta
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What did traders bring from the desert to trade?
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Dates and salt
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What did people from the Sahel sell for trade?
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Animals and hides
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What were some of the trade goods traided for in West Africa?
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Grains, fish, kola, tropical nuts, metals, gold
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What was one of the earliest West African kingdoms to grow rich and powerful from trade?
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Ghana
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What was introduced into Ghana as a result of traders crossing the Sahara?
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Islam
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What religion later became the main one practiced in the Sahel?
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Islam
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