Africa Vocabulary
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- mt. Kilimanjaro
- Africa\'s highest peak
- Escarpment
- Is a steep slope with a fat pleateau top
- Oasis
- Vegetation in desert from under water
- Canopy
- Refers to tops of trees 150 above ground
- Sahel
- Narrow band of dry grassland that runs east to west of sahara
- Nile river
- World\'s longest river
- Ritft Valley
- long thin valley
- sahara
- largest desert in world
- aquifer
- huge stores of under ground warer
- Serengeti
- GRasslands in Tanzania
- desertification
- an expansion of dry conditions to moist areas that are next to desert
- niger delta
- contains rich oil deposits in nigeria
- aswan high dam
- created an artificial lake, lake nasser
- Nelson Mandela
- contained most continuous record the humanity over past two million years
- carthage
- city on coast of medit. sea/north africa becoming trading n commercial force ancient
- pandemic
- is a disease affecting a large pop. over world wide geo area
- goree island
- served as one of the busiest departure pts. for slave during slave trade.
- bantu migrations
- mass movement of group of people southward thoughtout afirca
- cash crop
- they grown for direct sale
- islam
- monotheistic religion practiced by muslims
- rai
- in algeria, music developed by poor urban children.
- ashanti
- known for weaving colorfulu asasia
- stateless society
- group of people who govern themselves acording to family lineage
- mobutu society
- leader of democratic republic of congo-1960-1997
- fang sculpture
- type of central african art that inclunced picasso
- great zimbawe
- city established by shona around 1000
- apartheid
- in south africa, policy that legalized in sperations of races
- neson mandela-
- president in 1994
- one commodity- country
- country relies on one priniples export to make most of money
- commodity
- agriculture or mining roduct that can be sold. oil gold coffee
- AIDS
- caused by human immundeficiency virus (HIV)high level political commitment to help uganda stop
- Chlorea
- lack of sanitation and a clean water -treatable infection- flooding in mozambique
- tuberculosis
- respiratory infection spread by human contact acconmpanies AIDS
- diversify
- african nations need to do to build stronger econ.
- malaria
- virus carried by moquitos