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45 Cards in this Set
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What was built to shorten between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean |
Suez Canal |
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What is the main religion on Northern Africa |
Islam |
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What is the ancient picture symbol writing known as |
Hieroglyphics |
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Hinting animals illegally is called what |
Poaching |
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People who share history, language, religion, and culture are called what |
Ethnic Groups |
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A small plot for only farmers to grow food for their family |
Subsistence Farming |
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What are some causes of desertification |
Overgrazing and drought |
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What is known as the lifeline of egypt |
Nile River |
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What are the three ancient kingdoms in Western Africa |
Ghana, Mali and Songhai |
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A person who flees their country |
Refugees |
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Who where the first people in North Africa |
Berbers |
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3 items that Africans trading with the Europeans |
Slaves, Ivory and gold |
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What is Kenya's capital |
Nairobi |
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What were the 2 groups who fought in the Rwandan civil war |
Hutu and the Tutsi people |
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What is Africa's longest lake |
Lake Tanganyika |
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Most common language in North Africa |
Arabic |
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What is Africa's tallest mountain |
Mount Kilimanjaro |
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Capital of Egypt |
Cairo |
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What is Africa's largest lake |
Lake Victoria |
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Process of grassland turning into desert |
desertification |
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What was the Democratic Republic of the Congo known as |
Zaire |
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What is a small country inside another country |
Enclave |
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Umbrella like forest covering a rainforest |
Canopy |
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What is the large national park in Tanzania |
Serengeti National Park |
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Where did the apartheid take place |
South Africa |
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What is the desert that runs through Namibia |
Namib Desert |
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The law that separated black and white people in South Africa |
Apartheid |
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Major conflict between two groups within the same continent |
Civil war |
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Large waterfall in Zambia |
Victoria Falls |
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The widespread of cutting down trees |
Deforestation |
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When a population of an animal falls really low |
Endangered Speicies |
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A long period of time with little water |
Drought |
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When a type of animal no longer exists on the earth |
extinction |
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A widespread lack of food |
famine |
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An extermination of a certain group of people |
genocide |
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He was jailed for 27 years during the apartheid in South Africa |
Nelson Mandela |
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What is the West African country that was never a part of Europe |
Liberia |
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The ethnicity created by marrying Arabs and Africans |
Swahili |
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A grassland tropics with few trees |
Savana |
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Major mountain range in Morocco , Algeria and Tunisia |
Atlas Mountains |
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An area formed by plate movements that contains deep lakes early human fossils and mountains in east Africa |
Great Rift Valley |
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first west African country to become independent from Europe |
Ghana |
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Most south western point on the African continent |
Cape of Good Hope |
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AN overseas settlement founded by another country |
Colony |
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A fertile area in a desert supplied by groundwater |
oasis |
