Africa Vocabulary Part 1
Quiz by PHILIP GORDON (Golden Valley MS)
Grade 7
Social Studies
California Public Schools Standards
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- Q1A region that has certain types of plants.
Slash and Burn agriculture
Sahara
vegetation zoneBiome
20s - Q2The largest desert in the world, covering most of Northern Africa?
Sahel
SaharaMojave Desert
Kalahari Desert
20s - Q3A grassland in a tropical region.
Sahel
SavannahTropical rainforest
Sahara
20s - Q4The Islamic group that established an empire in Northern Africa.
Arabs
Christians
AlmoravidsBerbers
20s - Q5A West African storyteller who tells stories, sings songs, and recites poems to share history.
proverb
sahel
poetry
griot20s - Q6The doing of specific types of work by trained or knowledgeable workers.
griots
farmers
slash and burn agriculture
labor specialization20s - Q7A social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.
family
kinshipclan
friendship
20s - Q8A strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas.Sahel
Tropical Rainforest
Sahara
Biome
20s - Q9The land on the African continent that is south of the Sahara (below red line).
Sahara
Sub- Saharan
Atlas Mountains
Biome
20s - Q10An ancient West African city built along the Niger River, which existed for 1600 years.
Mecca
Jenne-JenoTimbuktu
Medina
20s - Q11The longest river in West Africa, which was a kind of trading highway in early times.
Nile River
Congo River
Niger RiverTigris River
20s - Q12The process of melting ore to produce iron or other metals from it.
melting
smeltingslash and burn agriculture
iron
20s