West and Central Africa

The ____________ process occurs when trees in a forest are removed faster than they grow back.

• Deforestation

• Desertification

• Microcredit

The policy by which one country seeks to rule another country.

• Colonization/Colonialism

• Deforestation

• Savanna

The change from arable land to desert.

• Microcredit

• Deforestation

• Savannah

• Desertification

An area where there are grasslands and few trees.

• Desert

• Savannas

• Tropical rainforest

Trade took place along the middle passage from Africa, Europe, and the Americans. There were several names for this area. It was called__________.

• Colonialism

• Democracy

• Atlantic Slave Trade

The country of _______ has a corrupt government, civil war, diamond smuggling.

• Ghana

• DRC

The country of _______ had a leader named Jerry Rawlings who established a democratic government.

• DRC

• Ghana

Many traded Gold for __________.

• Salt

• Silver

Small loans given to women to help start a business.

• African Union

• Microcredit

• Deforestation

An area of land below the Sahara desert that is slowly changing. It is covered by grassland and is semiarid.

• Tropical rainforest

• Sahara

• Sahel