Transition Zone ch 20

What does the location of Africa's kingdoms and trading states influence?

• their ideas and religious faiths

• their education and the jobs market

• their their beliefs in world affairs

• their ideas about nuclear energy

Has cultural diffusion in Africa through interaction with other cultures been positive, neutral or negative for the transition Zone?

• positive

• negative

• netural

This is an area in which the properties of the land undergo a radical change.

• military zone

• African zone

• transition zone

• Sahel zone

This is a steppe region extending from Senegal to Somalia that receives little rainfall.

• Transition Zone

• delta

• Sahel

• Harmattan

This is the second largest wetland in Africa.

• Lake Chad

• Lake Volta

• Lake Meade

• Lake Sahel

The African Transition Zone is known for its remarkable__________________ and extraordinary physical _______________.

• wildlife & climate

• wildlife & geography

• temperatures & rivers

• wetlands & people

The African Transition Zone also has the world's fastest growing populations and hundreds of ethnic _______________.

• food groups

• buildings

• groups

• clothing styles

This is an often triangular shaped section of land formed as the waters of a river slow down and split into many different channels.

• sahel

• delta

• transition zone

• clan

This is a hot dry wind that blows from the northeast of east in the western Sahara.

• delta

• sahel

• harmattan

• monsoon

This is one of the largest man made lakes in the world.

• Lake Volta

• Lake Chad

• Lake Aden

• Lake Kano