BJU Cultural Geography Chapter 14 (5th ed)

_________ is the longest river in the world at 4,160 miles long.

Ergs are flat desert areas covered with pebbles.

Who is the most significant people group in Mauritania?

Phosphate is an important ingredient in...

Which peoples were the first to settle in the Maghreb?

Farmland in Egypt is being lost to urbanization.

Islam is the main religion of North Africa.

How much rainfall does the Sahara get annually?

Oases are vital for life in the desert.

Which lake is drastically shrinking?

A food staple in the Sahel is millet

The Suez Canal is the shortest route between Europe and the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

What is called the "lifeblood" of Egypt?

What is the major crop for Mali, Egypt, and Chad?

It averages 10 miles wide in the south.

All of the following a resources of North Africa except:

What is the capital of Libya?

The culture of North Africa can be described as all of the following except:

What is the most significant Bedouin tribe in North Africa?

There are ski resorts in North Africa.

A culture where men are the leaders:

What is the farming of fish called?

The Sahara is the worlds smallest dry desert in the world.

The capitals of Bamako (Mali) and Niamey (Niger) are built on the:

North Africa has an issue with which insects?

Parts of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Chad are in this region.

This region covers most of Morocco.

The Sahar is interspersed with hamadas.

Northern ________ is a transitional region of grass-covered plains between the Sahara and the jungles of Central Africa.

Sediment that accumulates at a delta is called alluvial deposits.

What country has a large Christian minority known as Copts?

Which two countries have the best economies of the entire North Africa region

The 2 main regions of Africa are sub-Saharan Africa and Western Africa.

Most of the people of North Africa live along the coast of the:

What commodity did the ancient Sahel peoples trade for gold?

__________ are areas of fertile land watered by a natural spring or some other water source like aquifers.

What year did Egypt gain independence from Britain?

The governments of North Africa can be described as unstable and corrupt.

What is the capital of Mali?

What empire was the famous and rich ruler Mansa Musa from?

The Asian part of Egypt is the:

What is the spread of the desert called?

What is the main region covering Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco?