Chapter 20: The Transition Zone

An area in which the properties of the land undergo a radical change

• Transition Zone

• Sahel

• Desert

• Savannah

Steppe region extending from Senegal to Somalia that receives little rainfall.

• Transition Zone

• Sahel

• Harmattan

• Desertification

Region where waters of a river spit into many channels as they bring sand and silt down river.

• Plain

• Transitional River Zone

• Delta

• Sahel

To adapt plants and animals from the wild for human use.

• Desertification

• Animist

• Patriarchal

• Domesticate

Agriculture that provides the basic needs of a family with a little surplus.

• Subsistence Farming

• Nuclear Farming

• Commercial Agriculture

• Patriarchal Agriculture

Practice of passing down stories from generation to generation by word of mouth.

• Subsistence education

• Oral Tradition

• Patriarchal generation

• Clan Tradition

A large group of people descended from the same ancestor.

• Nuclear Family

• Oral Tradition

• Clan

• Subsistence Family

The destruction of land in arid and semi arid climates.

• Transitional degredation

• Global Warming

• Domestication

• Desertification

A family that is headed by a male family member,

• Patriarchal

• Maleclanical

• Nuclear Family

• Animist

Religious beliefs in which nature and objects, such as animals and mountains are thought to have spirits.

• Monothiestic

• Animist

• Christianity

• Muslim