African Geography: Plateaus, Basins and Rivers
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Plateau
most prominent land form in africa
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1000 ft
how many feet above sea level is africa
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basins
depressions
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Chad, Sudan, Congo, Djouf basins
list the basins of africa
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Nile River
worlds longest river
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95%
what precent of people in egypt depend on the nile
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32 cateracts or waterfalls
difficulties in using the congo river
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meandering courses
difficulties in using the Niger River
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rift valleys
most destintive land form in East Africa
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rift valleys
formed by continental plates pulling apart
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Lake Tanganyika
longest freshwater lake in the world
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Lake Victoria
Africa's largest lake
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Mount Kilimanjaro
africa's highest mountain
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Mnt kilimanjaro and Mnt kenya
two main volcanos in africa
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Ethiopian Highlands, Tibesti Highlands, Mount Cameroon
things formed by volcanic activity
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escarpment
steep slope with nearly flat plateau on top
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Great Escarpment
maks edge of continents plataeu in Southern Africa
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South Africa
world's largest producer of Chromium
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Nigeria, Libya, Algeria, Angola
Africa's leading petroleum producers IN ALL AFRICA
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coffee, lumber, agriculture
other (lesser) major commodities in africa
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Kalahari, Namib
deserts found in soutern africa
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Sahara
dessert in North Africa
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Sahara
largest dessert in world
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Tibesti Mountains
mountians located in north eastern chad
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aquifers
huge stores of ground water
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oasis
places where water comes to surface in deserts
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tropical area
most prominent climate in Africa
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central africa
what area gets the kost rainfall
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equator
the closer an area is to the ___, the longer the rainy season
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Serengeti Plain
main tropical grassland in Northern Tanzania
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Congo Basin
where do most rain forests reside
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canopy
uppermost layer of branches
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slash-and-burn
agricultural method to ferilize soil that threatens existence of rain forests
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oak, pine, mangrove
main types of trees in Africa
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Niger Delta
region which contains most of Nigeria's oil
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Sahel
means "shore of the desert"
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Desertification
expansion of dry conditions into moist areas next to deserts
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overgrazing (livestock), farming, increasing population
3 human activities contributing to desertification
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Nigeria
what african nation is the 8th leading oil exporter in the world (accounts for 80-90% of its income)
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fires, acid rain, respritory Diseases
effects of oil spills in Nigeria
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Olusegun Obasanjo
president of Nigeria during political reform/cleanup
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
2nd president of Nigeria during political reform, tasked with finding ways for Nigeria to benefit from oil
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Aswan Dam
first dam created by Egypt to control Nile
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Aswan High Dam(n) :o
2nd dam built by Egypt, created artificial cal lake
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Lake Nesser
artificial lake created by Aswan High Dam
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Irrigating farmland
what is the main purpose of the aswan high dam
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decreased soil fertility, rising water, disease
main problems introduced when the dam was created
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Olduvai Gorge
one of the best fossil sites in Africa
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Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, uganda
countries in East Africa
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Aksum
early civilization in present day Ethiopia
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berlin conference
meeting with 14 European nations to divide up africa
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bought weapons from Russia and france
how did ethiopia resist european control
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Menelik II
under what leader did ethiopia resist european control
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Rwandan Genocide
what did ethnic tensions between Tutsi and Hutu boil over into
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cash crop
crop made for selling
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parklands
conflicts arose over these tourist destinations
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masai and kikuyu
major ethnic groups in east africa
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carthage
city founded by Phoenician queen
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Pharaoh
kingod/monarch of Egypt
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Pyramids
where was the king of egypt buried
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Mesopotamians
some ideas of the egyptions may have originated from what people
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Islam
monotheistic religion based on the teachings of Muhammad
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Algeria, Libya, Tunisia
major oil producers in NORTH AFRICA
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Soulks
marketplaces
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medina
old section of a city
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rai
music developed by poor urban children, used as protest music
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Goree Island
one of the busiest points in the slave trade
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Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Cote dlovoire, gambia, ghana, guinea, guinea-bissau, liberia, mali, mauritana, niger, nigeria, sengal, sierra leone, togo
countries of west africa
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Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan, tunsia
countries of north africa
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ghana
grew rich from taxing traders, 1st in 3 trading empires
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mali
conqured ghana, expanded trade, 2nd in 3 trading empires
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songhai
replaced mali, conqured by MOROCCAN army, 3rd in 3 trading empires
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stateless societies
society in which people rely on family lineages to govern themselves
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blood diamonds
diamonds harvested using slave or forced labor
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Ashanti
___, who live in what is now Ghanna, are known for there work in weaving asasia, what westerners call kente
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Ashanti
What civilaization places significance of stools
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West Africa
American forms of jazz, blues, and reggae find its roots in what area due to the slave trade
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Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, republic of the congo, equatorial guinea, gabon, sao tome, principe
countries of centeral Africa
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Bantu migrations
mass migration of Bantu language speakers
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Sao Tome
island established by Portuguese for Slave Trade
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King Leopold II
king of belgium that took particular interesst in the congo
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Belgians and French
Who occupied Central africa (colonies)
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Mobutu Sese Seko
leader of democratic republic of the congo
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Fang Sculpture
type of art that influenced Picasso
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Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, namibia, South africa, swaziland, zambia, zimbabwe
counties of Southern Africa
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Great Zimbabwe
city created by Shona people that thrived in gold trade
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Multapa Empire
followed Great Zimbabwe
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Boers
dutch farmers
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Apartheid
policy of complete segregation
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nelson Mandela
leader of African National Congress (ANC)
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FW de Klerk
President of south africa when changes began to occur
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Johannesburg
gold mining town that evolved into major city
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