Sub-Saharan Africa Vocabulary

huge depressions in the African plateaus

• basin

• escarpment

• silt

• oasis

Africa's continental plates pulled apart over millions of years causing the land to sink and form long, thin valleys called

• basins

• escarpments

• rift valleys

• enclave

a volcano that is also Africa's highest mountain

• Mount Kenya

• Mount Kilimanjaro

• Mount Cameroon

• Mount Everest

a steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on top

• basin

• valley

• escarpment

• oasis

the largest "desert" in the world

• Sahel

• Namib

• Sahara

• Serengeti

water that has come to surface in a desert

• basin

• escarpment

• aquifer

• oasis

tropical grassland in Norther Tanzania

• Sahara Plain

• Serengeti Plain

• Great Plain

• Sahel Plain

"shore of the desert" in Arabic; narrow band of dry grassland that runs east to west along the southern edge of the Sahara

• Sahel

• Sahara

• Namib

• Serengeti

expansion of dry conditions into moist areas that are next to deserts

• deforrestation

• oasis

• escarpment

• desertification

rich sediment deposited by rivers that fertilizes the soil

• canopy

• oasis

• silt

• aquifer