Africa Pre-assessment

Level 1

Productive agricultural lands created by deposited sediments carried by floodwaters

• alluvial soil

• wadis

• aquifer

• rift valley

Level 1

A culture that believes all elements of nature, such as animals and mountains, have spirits

• animist

• desertification

• transition zone

• bedouin

Level 1

Common language

• lingua franca

• habitat

• domesticated

• harmattan

Level 1

Oral historians, storytellers, singers, and musicians

• griot

• harmattan

• Sahel

• montane

Level 1

high steep cliffs behind the coastal plains

• escarpment

• wadi

• cataract

• fault

Level 2

Bedouins are members of a group of nomadic desert people

• who move from place to place seeking employments

• who move from place to place to sell and trade goods

• who migrated to North Africa from Europe

• who migrated to North Africa from Southwest Asia

Level 2

An example of successful water management being practiced in the Transition Zone is

• restricting water to alternate days

• recycling waste water

• collecting rainwater in basins

• using drip irrigation for farming

Level 2

The rapid growth of many cities in West Africa has placed a burden on existing __________ such as telephone and transportation systems

• substructure

• telecommunications

• infrastructure

• arable land

Level 2

European colonization of Equatorial Africa was slowed during the 1800's by

• competition for territory with other colonizers

• wars in Europe

• cholera

• malaria

Level 2

In _________, in 2008 protests against the high prices of necessities such as fuel led to deadly riots.

• Angola

• Mozambique

• Johannesburg

• Pretoria