West and Central Africa Review + East and Southern Africa

The Zambezi River is home to Victoria Falls

Great Zimbabwe began as

Describe the Sahel climate

What did countries around the world do to oppose apartheid?

Artists in Botswana are known for their

territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land

Which Bantu speaking group became powerful in the early 1800s?

The Congo Basin looks like...

This desert has some of the world's highest sand dunes.

Kingdom of Mansa Musa, second of the great trading kingdoms (1300-1500 AD)

Which country in Southern Africa has lush vegetation and tropical forests?

What is the climate of the highlands in east Africa?

The early history of Southern Africa includes the

The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits is

small territory surrounded by foreign territory

Running from the Red Sea to Mozambique, you will find the ____, the largest one on Earth.

Who was Ibn Battuta? 

Members of African tribes would kidnap other Africans for the slave traders.

Africa was colonized mostly by which countries?

In the Namib Desert, plants get most of their water from

Which two oceans border Southern Africa?

South Africa began to move away from its apartheid system

What are the two sources of Nile River?

The Hajj that Mansa Musa went on was...

West African country founded by Americans as a home for freed slaves

The name of the strip of land which divides the Sahara Desert from the wetter areas of West Africa

Many families were torn apart, and communities lost a large number of their pop. as a result of the African Slave Trade.

The countries included in the East African Plateau are all of the following except...

What is oral tradition?

The study of the past based on artifacts that people have left behind is

West African storytellers are known as...

True or False: An area of tall grasses, scattered trees, and shrubs is a savanna.

Do I need to study my map of WEST and CENTRAL AFRICA??

Most of the land of Southern Africa

Which event helped to spread Islam in Africa?

Name the instrument

People who share a common culture and ancestry is a/an

Which native group of people is known for the "click" sound in their language?

An animal found in the tropical regions of central Africa...

The Drakensberg are

Niger River used for all of the following except

The Serengeti is home to the "Great Migration"

Why was the African National Congress formed?

cultural center of the Songhai kingdom

Located in Tanzania and near the equator, this snow capped mountain is the highest in Africa.

Kingdom of Mali followed Songhai.

The Tibesti Mountains are

What was South Africa's past policy of separation of races called?

Why was Mansa Musa's hajj to Mecca important?

Dutch, French, and German settlers & their descendants in South Africa were called Afrikaners.

Which European country was the first to settle in Southern Africa?

Southern Africa is rich in mineral resources, including

First African kingdom that controlled the gold & salt routes

The inland delta of the Niger River...

What is Nigeria's most populated city?

Where is the Serengeti National Park?

empire that included much of Zimbabwe and Mozambique

In 1652, the Dutch set up a trade station at a natural harbor near

The Serengeti on the plains of East Africa are an example of a region with which climate type?

Which was NOT an affect of the Slave Trade on Africa?

river that flows from Angola to Botswana

The Shona people were linked to other peoples through

organization of black South Africans who opposed the apartheid government

West African climates are

The Niger River empties into the __________.

Victoria Falls, located on the Zambezi River between Zambia and which other country?

The Boers were

How did Christianity spread to Africa?

Which is NOT a main cultural influence in Western Africa?

The first people to live in Southern Africa were the

river that flows from Lesotho through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean

The Ethiopian Highlands are in East Africa.

Congo River Basin & Rainforest

a family heirloom, specifically the kora in Western African Griot families?

Deforestation in Africa causes all of following EXCEPT:

Access to safe drinking water in East Africa is threatened by population growth and pollution.

Under apartheid, each African tribe or group was given its own

What is Ashanti?

What important resources are found in Namibia’s deserts?

Which religion did Europeans bring to Southern Africa?

Two major rivers in Southern Africa are the

Which country’s main ethnic groups are descended from people who came from Indonesia?

What's Madagascar's climate?

Penalties imposed by one country on another to force changes in policies are called

What group of people spread Islam in into Africa in its early years?

What is unique about the Okvango River?

selected president in 1994 after all South Africans were given the right to vote

The Shona are best known for their stone-walled capital city, called

A former French colony whose name means "Ivory Coast"

What is the name of the tree common in Madagascar?

A shortage of food is a

The steep face at the edge of a plateau or other raised area is called a(n)

Which river runs through the Congo rainforest?

The spread of dry and arid conditions that results in making land unsuitable for farming is...

Area of flat, low-lying land that dominates most of West Africa

Under apartheid in South Africa, blacks had to live in separate areas known as

Extended families often live together in West Africa...

Griots are..

How many strings does a kora have?

Madagascar has many unique animals, including about 50 species of...