1. Section 1: Natural Environments Section 2: History and Culture
CHAPTER 21
North Africa
Section 1: Natural Environments
Section 2: History and Culture
Section 3: The Region Today

2. Question: What factors affect the climate of North Africa?
SECTION 1
Natural Environments
Question:
What factors affect the climate of North Africa?

3. • subtropical high-pressure system
SECTION 1
Natural Environments
Factors Affecting North African Climate
Causes
Effects
• Atlas Mountains
• rain shadow
• rain shadow
• arid climate
• harmattan
• sandstorms
• subtropical high-pressure system

4. SECTION 2
History and Culture
Question:
What languages, religions, peoples, and types of clothing are found in North Africa?

5. History and Culture SECTION 2 Peoples
Religions mostly Muslim, some Christians and Jews
Peoples
mostly Arab and Arab-Berber, some Bedouins
North African Culture
Languages mostly Arabic, also Berber, French, Italian, English
Clothing caftans, hooded robes, gallibiya

6. SECTION 3
The Region Today
Question:
What political and environmental issues currently exist in North Africa?

7. The Region Today SECTION 3 Political Environmental
Issues in North Africa
Political
political unrest; clashes between government and religious groups; civil war in Algeria; clashes between Libyan government and United States
Environmental
desertification; pollution from oil refining; polluted water supplies; fertilizer pollution in the Nile; Nile Delta shrinking

8. Chapter Wrap-Up CHAPTER 21
1. How have wind and water shaped important physical features of the Sahara?
2. Why are plants and animals in Egypt limited mostly to areas along the Nile Valley and Delta?
3. Which ethnic group makes up the majority of North Africa’s population? When did this ethnic grip first move into North Africa?
4. What is the main religion of North Africa? What are two minority religions there?
5. Why have many people in the region left to find work elsewhere? What has made the problem worse?