Vocabulary quiz Africa Environment

The destruction of Trees and other vegetation from cutting down too many trees.

• Drought

• Desertification

• Green line of demarcation

• water polllution

• Deforestation

A long period of little or no rain.

• Deforestation

• Desertification

• Drought

• Sahara Desert

The process of desert expanding into areas that have formerly been farmland, because the soil had lost the ability to hold water.

• Deforestation

• Desertification

• Sahara Desert

• Green line of demarcation

A small place in the desert where trees are able to grow and people can live with grazing animals and a few crops.

• Deforestation

• Desertification

• Green line of Demarcation

• Oasis

The largest non-polar desert on Earth. It covers 3.5 million square miles, considered one of the harshest environments on earth, and very few people live there.

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Kalahari Desert

• Sahara Desert

The cause of illness for half the people in African hospitals, drinking water that is polluted with pesticides fertilizers, human waste, storm water runoff, and manufacturing by products.

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Water Pollution

• infrastructure

The Cause of illness for half the people in African hospitals, drinking water that is polluted with pesticides, fertilizers, human waste, storm water runoff and manufacturing by products.

• Green line of demarcation

• Desertification

• Drought

• Water pollution

The basic physical systems of a country's population, including healthcare, roads, utilities, water, and sewage.

• Deforestation

• Desertification

• Infrastructure

• Irrigation

A form of agriculture in which an area of forest is cleared by cutting and burning and then is planted, usually for several seasons, before being left behind because it is no longer fertile.

• Irrigation

• Infrastructure

• Slash and burn policy

• Subsistence farming

Framing that provides for the basic needs of the farmers family, with little or nothing left over to sell .

• Irrigation

• Subsistence farming

• Slash and burn farming

• Infrastructure