Name ______

Regions of Africa Vocabulary, Terms, and Places

Chapter 22 and Africa’s Child Video: On a separate sheet of notebook paper, write the definitions of the words listed below. Use your textbook, Orange Glossary, or Sub-Saharan Africa Help Sheet.

  1. Animism
  2. Apartheid
  3. Civil War
  4. Cyclone
  5. Desertification
  6. Drought
  7. Endangered Species
  8. Famine
  9. Free Enterprise System
  10. Genocide
  11. Plate
  12. Poaching
  13. Secede
  14. Tsetse Fly
  15. Zonal

Chapter 23: Choose one word from each word pair to correctly complete each sentence below.

  1. A ______is a place on Earth’s surface where the crust stretches until it breaks. (rift valley/plain)
  2. The tallest mountain in Africa is ______. (Mount Kilimanjaro/Mount Kenya)
  3. ______means to change or influence. (geothermal energy/affect)
  4. A ______is an overland journey that is taken to view African wildlife. (drought/safari)
  5. ______has experienced serious droughts over the past 30 years. (Ethiopia/Kenya)
  6. ______are periods when little rain falls and crops are damaged. (flood/drought)
  7. The intentional destruction of a people is called ______. (murder/genocide)
  8. ______is a practice that tries to dominate other countries’ government, trade, and cultures. (imperialism/influence)
  9. A genocide committed by an Arab militia occurred in the region of Sudan known as ______. (Darfur/Kartoum)
  10. ______is an East African island that was an international slave-trading center in the late 1700s. (Madagascar/Zanzibar)

Chapter 24: Choose the term that correctly completes each sentence.

malariaimplementdialectperiodic marketcopper belt

inflationmalnutritionCongo BasinCongo

  1. The ______is a low area near the middle of Central Africa.
  2. ______is a disease spread by mosquitoes that causes fever and aching.
  3. People who do not get enough nutrients from their food suffer from ______.
  4. To ______a system is to put it in place.
  5. ______is the rise in prices that occurs when currency loses its buying power.
  6. A ______is a regional variety of a language.
  7. The river that flows through Central Africa and into the Atlantic Ocean is the ______.
  8. A ______is an open-air market set up once or twice a week.
  9. Much of the copper in Central Africa comes from a region known as the ______.

Chapter 25: Match the words with their definitions.

_____ 1. Great Zimbabwea. the steep face at the edge of a plateau or other raised

area

_____ 2. featuresb. economic or political penalties imposed by one country on another to force a change in policy

_____ 3. Boersc. a large, stone-walled town built by the Shona

_____ 4. apartheidd. Afrikaner frontier farmers in South Africa

_____ 5. sanctionse. a small territory surrounded by foreign territory

_____ 6. townshipsf. characteristics

_____ 7. escarpmentg. South Africa’s policy of separation of races

_____ 8. enclaveh. separate areas with clusters of tiny homes for black

South Africans