SS7G3 Quiz Review

Which phrase best describes the Sahara region?

• Hot, dry desert

• rolling grassland

• tropical rainforest

• scattered grassland and scrub brush

What is a nomad?

• plantation owners who live along the coast

• industrial workers who live in African cities

• one who wanders from place to place to find food and water

• those who live and farm in the villages on the edge of the dessert

What were two of the most important trade goods carried across the Sahara Desert by camel caravan?

• Gold and salt

• iron and silver

• gold and silver

• spices and wood

What has been the most reliable way to get across the Sahara over the centuries?

• horse

• camel

• wagon

• railroad

What is the name for a desert area that gets some rainfall or there is a spring?

• oasis

• Tuarag

• nomad

• savanna

Which phrase best describes the Sahel?

• an area that borders the desert

• rolling grasslands and low hills

• a desert made up of high sand dunes

• cleared land that was once rainforest

Why is farming so difficult in the African Sahel?

• No rain falls in the Sahel at all.

• Thick grass makes farming difficult.

• Rainfall can vary widely from year to year.

• Farm animals in the Sahel eat up all the crops.

What is the most common way people make a living in the Sahel?

• logging

• fishing and shipbuilding

• caravan trade in gold and salt

• herding and subsistence farming

Which is a consequence of cutting down trees for fuel in the Sahel?

• civil war

• desertification

• overpopulation

• wealthy loggers

How large is the region known as the African Sahel?

• The Sahel is found along the Mediterranean coast.

• The Sahel makes up the southern half of the country.

• The Sahel is found just along the west coast of the continent.

• The region extends from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean just south of the Sahara Desert.