Africa Vocabulary

Define: salt trade

• exchange between West Africans selling gold and Arab traders selling salt

• exchange between East Africans selling gold and Arab traders selling salt

• exchange between West Africans selling salt and Arab traders selling gold

• exchange between West Africans selling gold and East Africans selling salt

Define: Atlantic slave trade

• process by which Europeans brought enslaved Africans to the Americas

• process by which Africans brought enslaved Africans to the Americas

• process by which Europeans brought enslaved Africans to Europe

• process by which Africans brought enslaved Africans to Europe

Define: middle passage

• voyage across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas that formed the middle leg of the triangular trade among Europe, American colonies, and Africa

• voyage across the Pacific from Africa to the Americas that formed the middle leg of the triangular trade among Europe, American colonies, and Africa

• voyage across the Atlantic from the Americas to Europe that formed the middle leg of the triangular trade about Europe, American colonies, and Africa

Define: colonialism

• policy by which one country seeks to rule other areas

• policy by which one tribe seeks to take over another tribe

Define: Sahel

• a semiarid area that lies between the Sahara and moister regions to the south in northern Africa

• an arid area that lies between the Sahara and moister regions to the south in northern Africa

• a semiarid arid area that lies in South Africa near the Kalahari desert

• an arid area that lies in Eastern Africa

Define: savanna (multiple answers)

• parklike landscape of grasslands with scattered trees that can survive dry spells

• found in tropical areas with dry seasons

• found below the Sahel

• found in the Sahara

the change when arable land dries out and becomes desert

• deforestation

• desertification

• urbanization

• colonization

the loss of forest cover in a region that results from the trees in a forest being destroyed faster than they can grow back

• deforestation

• desertification

• urbanization

• colonization

movement of people from rural to urban areas

• deforestation

• desertification

• urbanization

• colonization

What does this picture show?

• delta

• Sahel

• savanna

• oasis