Sub-Saharan Africa Unit Test Study GuideName______

Vocabulary:

Know your vocabulary terms.

The Physical Geography of Africa Notes:

1. Africa is the ______largest continent.

2. The desert that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and is the world’s largest:

3. Most dominant landform:

4. Sahel is located:

5. What is the highest mountain in Africa?

6. How much rainfall does the rainforest get on average?

7. World’s longest river:

8.Most of USA’s hurricanes start here:

9. How was the Great Rift Valley formed?

10. Landform in danger b/c of slash & burn farming:

11. Countries the wildebeest migrate between:

12. Landform the wildebeest migrate on:

A Brief History of Africa

13. Who is Lucy?

14. Importance of Ancient Egypt:

15. The effects of Bantu Migration:

16. Three kingdoms of West Africa:

17. West African Kingdoms were mostly what religion:

18. Three reasons European countries initially interested in Africa?

19. Was there slavery in Africa before the Europeans came?

20. European advantages of slavery:

21. African disadvantages of slavery:

22. Three locations of the triangular trade:

23. What is the Middle Passage?

24. What was the goal of the Berlin Conference?

25. What are the effects of imperialism?

AIDS:

26. Number affected by AIDS:

27. Effects of AIDS on African society:

28. Percentage of world’s AIDS case in Africa:

Apartheid:

29. The first black man elected president in South Africa:

30. The policy of racial segregation:

31. Type of government today in South Africa:

32. List the rules for blacks during apartheid:

Rwanda Genocide:

33. Originally the separation of Tutsi or Hutu based on:

34. The elite group was the:

35. Who was killing who?

36. What year did the Rwanda genocide happen in? How long did it last?

37. How many people were killed in Rwanda?

Darfur:

38. Who is attacking who?

39. Where is Darfur located?

40. How are they attacking?

41. Why are they attacking?

42. The challenges of the refugee camps:

43. Who supports the Janjaweed?

44. What wasthe number of deaths for Darfur?

45. What does Janjaweed mean?

Africa in Transition:

46. Life expectancy:

47. Africans with safe water:

48. Africa’s percent of world’s population:

49. People who live off of a dollar a day in Africa:

50. Three ways children are affected by war:

51. Causes of erosion of the fertility of the soil:

52. Natural organisms found in the water:

53. Environmental problems caused by oil & gas industry:

54. Disease that kills many people but could be prevented with medication: