Name: __________________________
Plateau
Hydroelectric Power
Escarpment
Rift Valley
Animism
Sub-Saharan
Oral History
Industrial Revolution
Imperialism
Land Grab
Berlin Conference
Genocide
Colony
Harbor
Drought
Famine
Nomads
Berlin Conference
GDP
Per capita GDP
Raw materials
Direct rule
Indirect rule
Acculturation vs Diffusion
Canal
Strait
Delta
Infrastructure
Cash crop
Subsistence vs Commercial
Agriculture
Desertification
Sahel
Developed vs Developing Countries
HDI (Human Development Index)
Infant mortality rate
Life expectancy
HIV
AIDS
Malnutrition
Conflict minerals
Ecotourism
Ivory
African Union (AU)
Apartheid
Nelson Mandela
Sanction
Segregation
** Also need to know categories of economic development (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary)
** Be able to read and interpret a population pyramid – be able to predict levels of economic development with each population pyramid shape
Physical Geography:
1.
What separates North Africa from Sub-Saharan Africa?
2.
Why does Africa not have many natural harbors?
3.
How is Northern Africa different than Sub-Saharan Africa? (need to know multiple answers)
4.
Why did the British call Africa the “Dark Continent?”
5.
Why is Africa sometimes called the plateau continent?
6.
Why can’t ships use the rivers in Africa very well? (Two reasons)
How did this affect what Europeans knew about Africa?
7.
Why doesn’t Africa have any major mountain chains?
8.
What do they have instead of mountain chains?
9.
Shifting agriculture is an example of which of the five themes of geography?
10.
What often causes famine?
11.
What causes desertification in the Sahel ? (Three reasons)
12.
What traditional forms of agriculture and herding were practiced in the Sahel and how did they help prevent desertification?

13.
Why has the farming of cash crops increases desertification?
14.
Why is deforestation happening in the Sahel?
15.
What is being done to stop desertification of the Sahel?
16.
What does each pattern represent?
Stripes: ___________________________
Dots: _____________________________
Squares: __________________________
17.
Which pattern fits each? (dots, stripes, or squares)
Nomadic herders___________________
Located at the lowest latitudes in
Africa____________________
Slash and burn agriculture _______________________
Subject to desertification ___________________________
Located at the highest latitudes in Africa ___________________
Located at the equator __________________________
History of Africa Information:
18.
Why do we not know much about the history of early African civilizations?
19.
Why did demand for slaves increase in the 1500’s?
20.
How did Europeans get the slaves that they sold?
21.
What is imperialism?
22.
What is indirect rule and which countries ruled in this manner?
23.
What is direct rule and which countries ruled in this manner?
24.
How is the Industrial Revolution related to the land grab for Africa?
25.
Why did Europe colonize Africa? (5 answers)
26.
Which two European countries held the most territory in Africa?
27.
Which two countries in Africa were never colonized by the Europeans?
28.
Why was Africa colonized later than the Americas? (multiple answers)
29.
Who founded Liberia?

30.
What are the consequences of the arbitrary (random) borders constructed by European powers in Africa? hint to answer 1: access to water (economic issues)? hint to answer 2: conflict between people?
31.
Why are tribal or ethnic affiliations (memberships) more important than national identities in Africa? (Think about #27)
Economic Geography:
32.
How is Africa’s physical geography related to disease? (think insects)
33.
How does the above affect the economy of Africa?
34.
Plants, consistent rainfall, and lots of animals that could be domesticated are all reasons that Europe and Asia were more likely to have specialized jobs like blacksmiths, doctors, lawyer, and accountants instead of farmers.
What does this have to do with technology?
35.
What does technology (from the above question) have to do with European imperialism?
36.
Explain how the Africa’s imperialistic past contributed to each of the following economic conditions today: a.
African countries do not make anything with their raw materials. b.
African countries do not trade with each other very much.
37.
What do most of Africa’s people do for a living?
38.
How is the population density shifting in Africa in recent years?
39.
Mining, herding, and farming are all jobs in which category of economic development? (Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary)
Other:
1.
What is the difference between the HIV and AIDS?
2.
Where is the largest infection rate of HIV and AIDS in the world?
3.
What are some reasons that Apartheid was finally ended in the early 1990s?
4.
REVIEW: What is the difference between acculturation and diffusion?

5.
REVIEW: Know the difference between the 5 Themes of Geography:
Location (relative and absolute):
Place (physical or cultural):
Region (physical or cultural):
Movement (of goods, people or ideas):
Human-Environmental Interaction (people adapt t the environment or change the environment):