North Africa Geocache
Directions: write all terms and definitions in your notebook, write all questions and answers in your
notebook
Define the following terms: alluvial soil, wadi, phosphate, domesticate, hieroglyphics, geometric boundary,
nationalism, nomad, bedouin
Physical Geography of North Africa, p.390-393
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What physical process is responsible for shaping the landscape in North Africa?
How has the Nile River been the lifeblood of North Africa?
Why was annual flooding of the Nile River so important to the people of Egypt prior to the 1950s?
Why were dams built along the Nile beginning in the 1950s?
What did ancient cave paintings reveal about North Africa?
What are North Africa’s most significant natural resources?
What physical forces cause wadis?
Human Geography of North Africa, p.396-401
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What were the effects of Arab invasions of North Africa in the A.D. 600s?
Why were geometric boundaries used to determine national borders and what resulted?
What stirred demands for self-rule and provided the basis for the modern nations of North Africa?
What was the Arab Spring and when did it begin?
What was the result of the Arab Spring?
Where do most people in North Africa live? Why?
What is the process of Muslim prayer and how many times a day does it occur?
What is rai?