S.s. Bowl Chapter 13 Vocabulary Review

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A region drained by a river system

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Basin

Front 2

A semi-arid grassland that separates the Sahara in the north from the tropical grasslands

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Savannas

Front 3

There is less fertile land to grow food

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Desertification

Front 4

Deep valleys that formed when Earth's crust separated and broke apart

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Rift valleys

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Inactive volcanoes

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Dormant

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Group of lions

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Pride

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Area away from the coast

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Interior

Front 8

West Africans had to cut down forests

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Deforestation

Front 9

Areas of higher mountainous land

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Highlands

Front 10

An area between two geographic regions that has characteristics of both

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Transition zone

Front 11

A forest with warm temperatures

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Rainforest

Front 12

Electricity produced by a water source such as a river

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Hydroelectric power

Front 13

Have no direct access to a coast

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Landlocked

Front 14

A steep slope

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Escarpment

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Natural homes

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Habitat

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Illegal hunting

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Poaching

Front 17

Night based

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Nocturnal

Front 18

Tourism that is focused on Wildlife protection and responsible use of land and resources

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Eco-tourism

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Humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plants

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Agricultural Revolution

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The language they learn as children

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First language

Front 21

Groups of merchants traveling together for safety

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Caravans

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Common language between multiple groups of people

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Lingua Franca

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Trade across the Sahara

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Trans-saharan

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Gold deposited by a river

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Alluvial

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Independent states made up of a city and the territories depending on it

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City state

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Trading of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean

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Trans-Atlantic slave trade

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Inadequate food or nourishment

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Malnutrition

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Motivating reason

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Incentive

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The practice of extending a nation's influence by controlling other territories

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Imperialism

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The practice of directly controlling and selling foreign territories

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Colonialism

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people sent by a church to spread their religion among native populations

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Missionaries

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A movement to unify African people

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Pan-africanism

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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of Kenya and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of Ghana help to gain independence for their people

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John Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah

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Enslaved Africans were crowded on two large ships headed for European colonies in the Americas

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Middle Passage

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Between 1200 and 1450, the Shona people in southern Africa build a walled City out of stone

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Great Zimbabwe

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One of the best-known of the surviving Bantu languages

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Swahili

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Collect water from the entire south central part of africa

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The Zambezi River

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located in an equatorial area and flows into the Atlantic Ocean

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The Congo River

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a part of a chain valley that stretch from southwest Asia to southern Africa

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Great Rift Valley

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A semi-arid grassland that separates the Sahara in the north from the tropical grasslands

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Sahel