Africa questions: answer all questions in complete sentences



Africa questions: answer all questions in complete sentences.

1. Africa has over 1,000 languages and 3,000 ethnic groups. How do you believe this diversity can lead to conflict? Identify one current issue Africans are facing, read an article on this issue and summarize in one paragraph. Include the web address.

2. What percentage of the worlds’ population is contained within Africa?

3. Only 6% of land on the continent of Africa is arable (can be farmed). List five adaptations that Africans make to survive in this condition.

4. What is Africa’s most populated country?

5. Cairo is Africa’s most populated city, Cairo is in which country?

6. Africa has 53 nations and is 3x the size of the U.S., which concept from basic geography applies to Africa’s equal size on any given map?

7. List five ways in which Africa’s poorest citizens live on less than $100 a year.

8. 50% of Africa’s population is under 15, what does this say about life expectancy, living conditions?

9. What is Africa’s largest country? Look up one current issue article about this country. Read the article and summarize in one paragraph, including the web address.

10. Which mountains are in northwest Africa?

11. Which body of water separates Africa and Europe? This strait is 9 miles at its widest, how could this proximity (closeness) lead to conflict?

12. What percentage of the continent is made up of the Sahara?

13. What is an oasis? In which ways could an oasis be useful to shepherds who move around with their animals?

14. What is a Hamma/Hamadas? Look up the word(s), what is the origin of its language? What does the origin tell you about people living in Northwest Africa?

15. What is an erg?

16. Who are the Tuaregs? Why does living in the Sahara/Sahel region make them nomadic?

17. Arid means having a dry climate with little or no rain. Write a sentence describing an African country that is arid.

18. How could desertification lead to famine in countries in which agriculture is difficult?

19. What percentage of the Sahara desert is made up of regs? What can be inferred about changes in the biome from the existence of the regs?

20. Why would nomadic people in Africa have a difficult time watering their herds in a wadi?

21. Why can marginal land be difficult to cultivate? How does desertification increase marginal land?

22. How are pastoral nomads dependent on the land?

23. What is shifting agriculture? How could shifting ag. be hard on the soil?

24. Identify five ways in which Africans adapt to life in places with consistent drought conditions.

25. At which types of latitudes do deserts exist? What percentage of the world is covered by desert?

26. What is the meaning of the Arabic word ‘Bedouin,’? How many nomads/Bedouins live in Africa?

27. What are cash crops? Identify five cash crops that are cultivated in Africa.

28. What type of plate boundary is represented by the Great Rift Valley?

29. Which peninsula is located between Africa and Asia? For which world religion does this peninsula hold great significance, why?

30. On which geographic feature is Somalia located? Identify the 2014 film based on the Maersk Alabama’s voyage around the horn of Africa. Extra Credit: Read an article about piracy in Somalia and summarize in a paragraph.

31. Why was the Suez Canal constructed?

32. What is the longest river in the world? Identify five adaptations of Africans who live along the Nile.

33. What is the Aswan Dam? Why was the Aswan Dam constructed? (internet research)

34. What is the main river in West Africa? What is its length?

35. What is the main river in Central Africa? Identify the novel based on a voyage down this river.

36. What is the fourth longest river in Africa?

37. What is the largest waterfall in the world? How does its size compare to Niagara Falls?

38. What is the highest mountain in Africa? What is the meaning of its name? List five adaptations made amongst Africans living near this mountain.

39. What is the deepest lake in Africa? What is one man-eating animal that lives in the lake?

40. What is the second deepest lake in Africa? How does this lake rank among the worlds’ deepest lakes?

41. In which desert are the highest sand dunes in the world located?

42. What is the meaning of the word ‘Namib Desert’? Why would this be the case?

43. What is the meaning of the world Kalahari?

44. At 512 feet below sea level, what is the lowest lake in Africa?

45. What is the third largest lake in the world and Africa’s largest?

46. Which lake is named after the word lake?

47. What is the name for grasslands in Africa? Identify the three regions into which Africa is split.

48. Describe the cycle of Guineau Worm Disease.

49. Identify 4-5 diseases that affect life in Africa.

50. What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?

51. What is the fourth largest island in the world?

52. What were the consequences of the Rwandan Civil War? Which two ethnic groups were involved in the fighting? Which group had been placed in power by the imperial Belgians?

53. How has fighting impacted people living in Darfur in the Sudan? Which geographic theme is represented by events taking place there?

54. Which African country capitol is named after American President James Monroe? What is the Latin word for which this country is named?

55. Which geographic feature is located at the southern tip of Africa?

56. What is the newest country in the world? Why was this country created? (internet research)

57. What is the most populated country in Africa? How does Nigeria’s GDP of $1500 compare to the U.S. GDP? (C.I.A. World Factbook)

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