DOUBLE JEOPARDY! AFRICA: LPS GEOGRAPHY STANDARD 4.2 review

EcosystemsClimates Human Impact on Ecosystems Africa Just Because Terms DOUBLE JEOPARDY! FINAL JEOPARDY

Ecosystems Warm plentiful rainfall with tall trees that form a dense canopy above.

Ecosystems answer What is Tropical Rainforest?

Ecosystems Warm all year, wet and dry seasons, grassland with scattered trees and other plants.

Ecosystems answer What is Tropical Grassland (acc. Savanna)?

Ecosystems Scarce rainfall, extreme temperatures, cactus, etc.

Ecosystems answer What is desert?

Ecosystems Always cool or cold, specialized plants like lichens, mosses, no trees.

Ecosystems answer What is tundra?

Ecosystems What three things interact and combine to form an ecosystem?

Ecosystems answer What are plants, animals and the physical environment in which they live?

Climates Water that falls to the earth’s surface.

Climates answer What is precipitation?

Climates Day on which the sun is directly overhead the earth’s equator.

Climates answer What is an equinox?

Climates What prevents the sun’s heat from escaping back into space too quickly?

Climates answer What is the atmosphere?

Climates Climate regions are classified mainly on the basis of several things. Name 2 of those things.

Climates answer What are: elevation, seasonal temperature (acc. Temperature), precipitation, and latitude?

Climates The rotation of the earth causes winds to blow in curved lines. What is this called?

Climates answer What is the Coriolis Effect?

Human Impact on Ecosystems The Aswan High is one of these… used to control flooding on the Nile River.

Human Impact on Ecosystems answer What is a dam?

Human Impact on Ecosystems Destruction of this ‘transition’ region has been caused by overgrazing of cattle and other livestock.

Human Impact on Ecosystems answer What is the Sahel?

Human Impact on Ecosystems The two most common economic activities in all of sub-Saharan Africa.

Human Impact on Ecosystems answer What are subsistence farming and nomadic herding?

Human Impact on Ecosystems Kenya has promoted economic growth by encouraging the planting of coffee and tea. The term for products like coffee and tea to be sold in a commercial market is _______ ________.

Human Impact on Ecosystems answer What are cash crops?

Human Impact on Ecosystems When sands encroach on land with vegetation, what is the process that occurs known as?

Human Impact on Ecosystems answer What is desertification?

Africa Just Because Africa has hundreds of these which make communication difficult at times.

Africa Just Because answer What are languages?

Africa Just Because Travel from the interior of Africa to the coasts via river can be difficult because of these.

Africa Just Because answer What are waterfalls (acc. Cataracts)?

Africa Just Because What two European Countries held the most colonial possessions in Africa at the beginning of the 20th century?

Africa Just Because answer What are France and Great Britain?

Africa Just Because The Libyan, Namib, and Kalahari are examples of this type of biome.

Africa Just Because answer What are deserts?

Africa Just Because Besides drought and starvation, what has been the number one killer of Africans for the past several decades?

Africa Just Because answer What is AIDS?

Terms Elevated land with a flat or gently rolling surface. Most of Africa is this.

Terms answer What is a Plateau?

Terms Another name for a major type of ecosystem.

Terms answer What is a biome?

Terms Maple, Oak, Elm, Ash, etc. are all examples of this kind of tree.

Terms answer What are deciduous trees?

Terms Another word for cliff.

Terms answer What is an escarpment?

Terms A type of ‘scrubby’ vegetation found in dry regions and particularly a Mediterranean climate.

Terms answer What is chaparral?

FINAL JEOPARDY! The area around the Equator experiences virtually no wind. What is the name of this ‘windless’ phenomenon that historically sailors hated?

FINAL JEOPARDY! ANSWER What are the “Doldrums”?