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Wild Card
Geography of Africa
Five Themes
History Statistics
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1. World Largest HOT desert
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1. What is the Sahara?
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2.World Longest River
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2. What is the Nile River
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3. Dry region just south of the Sahara Desert,
includes countries such as Mali, and Chad.
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3. What is the Sahel
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•4.Most people in Africa are subsistence
farmers. What does subsistence farming mean?
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4. A subsistence farmer grows just enough food for himself and his family. Very little, or no extra food.
5. This is the world’s 2nd largest
rainforest
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5. What is the Congo
Rainforst/Congo Basin Rainforest
6. What does literacy rate
mean?
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6. What is the % of a nations population
that can read and write
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7. If a nation has a very low urban
population (like in Kenya), where do most
people live?
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7. Most people live in rural areas - the country - not a big city - on small farms.
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8. What statistic might give us an
idea of the quality of
medical care in a country?
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8. What is life
expectancy, infant
mortality, doctors per 1,000 ppl …
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9. What continent has the largest %
of undernourished/hu
ngry people
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9. What is Africa?
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10. What is a drought and how could it lead to hunger?
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10. A drought is very little
rainfall. Without rain, crops don’t
grow and subsistence
farmers and their families go hungry
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11. What is imperialism?
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11. When one country takes over another
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12. What European nation colonized
(took over) the most land in Africa?
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12. What is Great Britain.
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13. Apartheid was practiced in South Africa
after the end of colonization
there. What does apartheid mean?
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13. Apartness,
racial segregation
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14. What country did the Lost Boys have to leave because of civil war?
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14. What is Sudan?
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15. Why do enemy tribes live
together in some African nations?
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15. Many political borders in Africa were drawn by
Europeans during Imperialism
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16. Latitude and longitude make up which
theme of geography
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16.What is location/abosolute location
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17. The endangerment of the African Elephant is part of which
theme?
17. What is HEI (human environment interaction)?
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18. The refugees known as the
lost boys would best fit into what theme?
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18. What is movement
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19. Religion is part of which
theme of geography?
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19. What is human
characteristics of place
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20. This nation colonized the
Western REGION of Africa
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20. Who are the French?
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21. Show the class which way latitude
runs
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21. What is horizontal?
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22. Who became the first black president of South Africa?
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22. Who is Nelson Mandela
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23. What two nations remained
free during imperialism?
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23. What are Ethiopia and Liberia?
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24. In what region of Africa is
desertification a problem?
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24. What is the Sahel
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25. What does per capita GDP stand for and
MEAN.
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25. Per capita GDP means gross domestic product per person.
It measures everything a nation makes/produces/sells and divides that by the population in a
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