Unit 8: Africa Today

This is the largest desert on the planet.

• Sahara

• Sahel

• Desertification

• Sub-Saharan

This is a transition region between the harsh desert and grasslands.

• Bantu

• Sahel

• Sahara

• Savanna

A vast area of both grassland and more tropical habitats in the middle of Africa close to the equator.

• Bicameral Legislature

• Water Wars

• Sahara

• Savanna

Hot and humid climates and dense forests with trees hundreds of feet tall.

• Bantu

• Sahel

• Sahara

• Tropical Rainforest

The destruction of trees and other vegetation.

• Desertification

• Water Wars

• Deforestation

• Swahili

The process of land becoming like a desert, due to deforestation and drought.

• Desertification

• Sahara

• Deforestation

• Tropical Rainforest

Extreme and general scarcity of food.

• Bantu

• Ashanti

• Swahili

• Famine

A group of people found in the modern country of Ghana.

• Ashanti

• Bantu

• Swahili

• Savanna

A people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.

• Ashanti

• Swahili

• Bantu

• Sahara

A member of any large number of language related people of central and southern Africa.

• Ashanti

• Swahili

• Bantu

• Sahel