West and Central Africa Review

What is the expansion of deserts

called?

• deforestation

• desertification

• evaporation

• decimation

A semi-dry strip of land in Africa that divided the desert from wetter lands to the south

• Sahara
• Sahel
• Savanna
• Rainforest

middle portion of West Africa has this type of climate

• Wetland

• Woodland

• Savanna

• Montane

Ghana, Mali, and Songhai all traded which TWO items?

• Gold and fish
• Gold and salt
• Gold and timber
• Gold and bronze

A traditional oral historian, storyteller, singer, and musician of West Africa

• lagoon

• reservoir

• griot

• fishery

The most populous city in Africa

• Lagos

• Nigeria

• Benin

• Togo

A savannah is

• a dry desert.

• a jungle.

• a flat grassland.

• a mountain range.

What event caused the increase of enslaved Africans?

• when Muslims arrived in Africa

• when Europeans arrived in West Africa, namely the Portuguese

• when Mongol invaders arrived in Africa

What spreads malaria?

• tsetse flies
• giraffes
• mosquitoes
• air pollution 

What does it mean for land to be arable?

• It is rich in mineral resources.
• It is covered with forests.
• It is swarming with insects.
• It is able to be farmed.