Africa NatGeo World History Grade 6

The African _____________ ecosystem is a tropical grassland with warm temperatures year-round and with its highest seasonal rainfall in the summer. The _____________is characterized by grasses and small or dispersed trees that do not form a closed canopy, allowing sunlight to reach the ground.

(a)  

The Sahara's lakes, rivers, and grasslands dried up thousands of years ago. As rain became scarce and temperatures soared, the Sahara's fertile soil became dry and unproductive. This process is called (a)   .

North of Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya is the (a)   Sea.

The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the (a)   Sea.

The Sahara has fossils of fish and rock paintings of lakes, forests, and herds of cattle. This leads scientists to believe that, thirty million years ago, the Sahara was the location of an ocean.

• True

• False

scarcity means

• a tradable good

• a marked shortage of something

• the practice of passing stories by spoken voice

A griot is

• a West African storyteller

• a marked shortage of something

• a tradable good

Ghana became wealthy because

• it had a great deal of salt and gold to sell

• there was a toll on salt and gold traders had to pay

• its jewelry and iron tools were highly prized commodities

Who was the king from Ghana (c.1300s) who traveled with hundreds of enslaved people, his whole family, and an enormous amount of gold from Ghana to Mecca (in Saudi Arabia), but then needed to borrow money to get back to Ghana?

(a)  

Salt was a valuable commodity in Africa. It assists in

• hydration

• circulation

• muscle contraction

• digestion