What is the highest
peak in Africa?
What are rift valleys?
What is the water
source that supplies
95% of Egyptians
water?
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Long thing valleys that
formed in Africa as
tectonic plates pulled
apart
Nile River
What dam was
created to control the
Nile’s flood waters?
Aswan High Dam
Eastern Africa
What is an
escarpment?
A steep slope with a
nearly flat plateau on
top.
90% of Africa is
between what two
imaginary lines?
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
After oil, what is
Africa’s most
profitable
commodity?
Where in Africa are
most rift valleys
found?
What is the
approximate
percentage of
African’s make their
living by farming?
What river forms
Africa’s largest
network of
waterways?
What 3 African
countries are some of
the world’s leading oil
producers?
Congo River
Libya, Nigeria, Algeria
How much of the
Sahara is sand?
Besides the Sahara,
what’s another desert
in Africa?
20%
Namib or Kalahari
Coffee
66%
What can be found
6,000ft below the
Sahara?
Aquifers
What is a negative
consequence of the
Aswan High Dam?
Decreased soil fertility
or increased malaria
or many people had
to relocate
What is the Serengeti
Plain?
Large tropical
grasslands in northern
Tanzania
What is
desertification?
What is one cause of
desertification?
An expansion of dry
conditions into moist
areas that are next to
deserts
Farming or
overgrazing or
burning wood for fuel
What African country
is the 6th leading oil
producer?
Nigeria
Where are the major
rainforest of Africa
located?
On the equator in
Congo basin
What region of Africa
receives the most
precipitation?
Central Africa
What is a onecommodity country?
A country that relies
on one principle
export for much of its
earnings
What makes travel on
Africa’s rivers
difficult?
Waterfalls, rapids,
gorges
What region of Africa
is mostly dependent
on nomadic herding?
What are the main
economic activities of
the African
rainforests?
Northern Africa
Where is the marine
west coast climate
located in Africa?
How many miles
across does the
Sahara desert stretch?
Southeast
3,000 miles
Hunting, fishing, and
forestry
Name 3 climates in
Africa.
Tropical Wet, Tropical
wet and dry, Desert,
Semiarid,
Mediterranean,
Humid subtropical,
Marine west coast,
Highland
What does Sahel
mean?
Shore of the desert
Much of Africa lies
________ ft above sea
level
What is the Sahel?
A narrow band of dry
grassland that runs
east to west along the
southern Sahara
What common
method are farmers
using to cut down the
African rainforests?
Where is most of
Nigeria’s oil found?
(landform)
Niger Delta
1,000
Slash and Burn
What is the largest
lake in Africa?
What is the longest
freshwater lake in the
world?
Lake Victoria
Within one square
mile of the African
rainforests about how
many different plant
species are there?
What lake did the
Aswan High Dam
form?
Lake Nasser
Lake Tanganyika
100
What supports
vegetation and is critical
resource for people
living in the desert?
How many oil spills have
happened in the Niger
delta over the last 40
years?
Oasis
4,000
What was the largest
trading empire in East
Africa around 100AD?
The Aksum empire
was located in what
present day country?
In the 1300s, what
was one of the most
important trading
cities in East Africa?
Aksum
Ethiopia
Kilwa
What was the purpose
of the Berlin
Conference?
To divide up Africa
among European
countries
How many African
leaders were present
during the Berlin
Conference?
By 1914, what two
African countries
remained
independent?
None
Liberia and Ethiopia
What country tried to
conquer Ethiopia but
failed?
What percentage of
East Africa is rural?
Why is it bad to rely
solely on cash crops?
70%
Prices depend on the
world market
What group fought
against the British
between 1952 and
1960 in Kenya?
What is a pandemic?
Italy
Besides agriculture,
what is a main
economic activity in
East Africa?
What is the largest
ethnic group in
Kenya?
Kikuya
Tourism
Mau Mau
An uncontrollable
outbreak of a disease
affecting a large
population over a
large area
What were the 3
major trading empires
in West Africa?
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
What is a stateless
society?
People rely on family
lineages to govern
themselves
What group of people
is famous for kente
cloth?
Ashanti
What group of people
migrated through
Central Africa?
What is an example of
a stateless society in
West Africa?
What west African
country has a very
stable economy based
on exports?
Igbo of Nigeria
Ghana
What is Fang
sculpture?
Why hasn’t Sierra
Leon developed a
stable economy?
Carved boxes
containing the skulls
and bones of
deceased ancestors
Civil war and political
instability
What Belgium leader
opened the interior of
Africa to European
trade?
What two European
countries primarily
controlled Central
Africa?
King Leopold II
Belgium and France
About how many
different languages
does Central Africa
have?
What desert did the
Bantu migrate
through?
Bantu
What are the three
major resources of
the Democratic
Republic of Congo?
Gold, copper,
diamonds
Who brought the
Dem. Republic of
Congo’s businesses
under national
control?
Namib
700
Mobutu Sese Seko
What modern-day
African country did
the Bantu eventually
settle in?
What southern
African empire
dominated the gold
trade between the
1200s-1400s?
South Africa
What present-day
country did the
Mutapa Empire
occupy?
Who were the Boers?
Dutch farmers who
migrated to southern
Africa
Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe
What is apartheid?
The complete
separation of the
races
In what year did
Nelson Mandela
become president of
South Africa?
1994
In what country was
apartheid
established?
Who was the major
leader against
apartheid?
What was Nelson
Mandela’s political
party called?
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
African National
Congress (ANC)
Why did apartheid
hurt South Africa’s
economy?
What is Botswana’s
wealth based on?
What region of Africa
is most affected by
AIDS?
Minerals
Foreign nations
imposed economic
sanctions
Southern Africa
What is a gule wa
mkulu?
A religious dance
What is a vimbuza?
A dance performed by
healers who wish to
cure people of
sickness
What type of African
artwork inspired
Picasso?
Fang sculpture
What port was
created by the
Portuguese in the 15th
century for slave
trade?
São Tomé
In what year did the
genocide in Rwanda
occur?
1994
What is UNAIDS?
A UN program that
studies the AIDS
epidemic
How many people
have been displaced
since in Darfur?
When did South
Sudan gain
independence from
northern Sudan?
Over 2 million
2011
What is a commodity?
An agricultural or
mining product that
can be sold
What is a large barrier
to economic
development in
Africa?
Lack of education
Besides AIDS, what is
What two countries
another disease found
have had success in
throughout Africa?
reducing the spread of
HIV?
Malaria or Cholera
Uganda and Senegal
In the Top Gear video,
what country were
they driving through?
Who were the first
Europeans to
establish trade posts
in Africa?
What is the major
commodity of Angola?
What is the major
commodity of
Rwanda?
Petroleum
Botswana
Coffee
Portuguese
How much aid does
the U.S. give to Darfur
every year?
What was the name
of the main character
in Hotel Rwanda?
What European
country colonized
Madagascar?
What European
country colonized
Cameroon?
$380 million
Paul
France
Germany
What is the major
cause of famine in
Somalia?
Drought
Name a major port in
Central Africa
When did the Zulu
establish supremacy
in southern Africa?
What is Africa’s most
dominant climate
zone?
About how many
people died in the
genocide in Rwanda?
1819
Desert
800,000
Port-Gentil or Malabo