1. GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF AFRICA
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4. What is the largest desert in Africa?

5. Sahara Desert
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6. What is the longest river in the world which is located in Africa?

7. Nile River
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8. What are 3 environmental issues in Africa?

9. Lack of water Poor soil quality Expanding deserts
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10. What causes desertification?

11. Farmland (soil) which is overused becomes poor and powdery, allowing the wind to blow the topsoil away, leaving behind barren rocky land
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12. What is an ecosystem?

13. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
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14. What country is labeled as #1?

15. Democratic Republic of the Congo
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16. What city is located at 32˚ E longitude and 9˚ N latitude?

17. Malakal
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18. What country is labeled as #6?

19. Sudan
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20. What city is located at 32˚ E longitude and 6˚ N latitude?

21. Bor
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22. What country is labeled as #4?

23. Nigeria
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24. What are the two largest religious groups in Africa?

25. Islam
Christianity
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26. What are 3 examples of ethnic groups in Africa?

27. Arabs
Bantu
Swahili
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28. What religion and language did the Arabs bring when they arrived in Africa?

29. They brought Islam as a religion and Arabic as the language
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30. Why do many people think the Bantu group should be a language group rather than an ethnic group?

31. over 60 million people speak a Bantu-based language and share some of their culture
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32. Swahili comes from an Arabic word meaning
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33. “one who lives on the coast”
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34. What was the original reason the first Europeans came to Africa?

35. They were explorers who were trying to find a route around Africa to India and the rest of Asia.
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36. Why did Great Britain want to control parts of Africa?

37. To protect transportation routes to their British territories
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38. What method did the French use in trying to rule the African colonies
What method did the French use in trying to rule the African colonies? Explain what this method means.

39. Assimilation; making the Africans give up their culture and customs and adopting the French way of life.
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40. The ___________ _________ began as a reaction to colonial rule.

41. Pan-African movement
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42. Why were there so many wars and conflicts after Africa’s independence?

43. Lack of stable government, border disagreements, and rival ethnic groups put into the same colonies
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44. Name 2 problems of government instability in Africa.

45. Lack of educational opportunities Lack of medicine and food
Inability to combat disease and famine
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46. Why are the literacy rates in parts of Sudan and South Sudan very low?

47. The war made going to school very unsafe.
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48. What is literacy rate in South Sudan?

49. Only 27% of the population over age 15 can read and write.
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50. What is the Guinea worm?

51. A parasite that lives in water (and can actually grow in the stomach) when the person drinks contaminated water.
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52. What 3 factors are contributing to the rising number of HIV/AIDS cases in the country?

53. poor health care systems poverty lack of government organization
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54. What is industrial waste?

55. unwanted or residual material from industrial operations
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56. What are water wars?

57. Conflicts fought over water
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58. Define imperialism.

59. The process through which a country controls another country
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60. Define instability.

61. a tendency toward unpredictable or erratic behavior
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62. What is HIV?

63. Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the virus that leads to the development of AIDS
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65. What three conditions, which exist in many African countries, keep an economy from being strong?

66. Government and business corruption Internal fighting and civil war
Military rule
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