33A Where People Live and Work in Africa

Where do most people live in the savanna?

• near the Nile River, lakes or the coast

• near the Sahara

• near the Congo River or coast

• in the center of the savanna

Where do most people live in the rain forest?

• in the Atlas Mountains

• near the Sahel

• near the Nile River or coast

• near the Congo River or coast

What is a nomad?

• A person that lives in the mountains

• A person lives in the Kalahari Desert and travels by boat on rivers

• A person that lives in the desert near an oasis, they often travel by camel

• A person that has no permanent home and travels from place to place looking for food and water

Many people that live in the rain forest work in what industry?

• business

• medicine

• apple farming

• logging

Most people living in the Sahel do what type of work?

• subsistence farming and nomadic herding

• animal poaching and commercial farming

• water purification and urban planning

• park rangers and fisherman

Which phrase best describes the Sahara region?

• Hot, dry desert

• rolling grassland

• tropical rainforest

• scattered grassland and scrub brush

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

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 phrase best describes the savanna?

• a semi-arid region just south of the Sahara Desert

• an area of harsh desert in the north of the continent

• grasslands making up half of the African continent

• an area of fertile plain along the Mediterranean coast

Which phrase BEST describes the rainforest?

• hot and dry desert

• semi-arid farmland

• rolling grassy plains

• humid and warm with thick vegetation