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Africa Vocabulary Part 1

Quiz by PHILIP GORDON (Golden Valley MS)

Grade 7
Social Studies
California Public Schools Standards

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  • Q1
    A region that has certain types of plants.

    Slash and Burn agriculture

    Sahara

    vegetation zone

    Biome

    20s
  • Q2
    The largest desert in the world, covering most of Northern Africa?

    Sahel

    Sahara

    Mojave Desert

    Kalahari Desert

    20s
  • Q3
    A grassland in a tropical region.

    Sahel

    Savannah

    Tropical rainforest

    Sahara

    20s
  • Q4
    The Islamic group that established an empire in Northern Africa.

    Arabs

    Christians

    Almoravids

    Berbers

    20s
  • Q5
    A West African storyteller who tells stories, sings songs, and recites poems to share history.

    proverb

    sahel

    poetry

    griot
    20s
  • Q6
    The doing of specific types of work by trained or knowledgeable workers.

    griots

    farmers

    slash and burn agriculture

    labor specialization
    20s
  • Q7
    A social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.

    family

    kinship

    clan

    friendship

    20s
  • Q8
    A strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas.
    Sahel

    Tropical Rainforest

    Sahara

    Biome

    20s
  • Q9
    The land on the African continent that is south of the Sahara (below red line).

    Sahara

    Sub- Saharan

    Atlas Mountains

    Biome

    20s
  • Q10
    An ancient West African city built along the Niger River, which existed for 1600 years.

    Mecca

    Jenne-Jeno

    Timbuktu

    Medina

    20s
  • Q11
    The longest river in West Africa, which was a kind of trading highway in early times.

    Nile River

    Congo River

    Niger River

    Tigris River

    20s
  • Q12
    The process of melting ore to produce iron or other metals from it.

    melting

    smelting

    slash and burn agriculture

    iron

    20s

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