Unit 2: Africa-Human Environment Interaction Vocabulary Quiz

Scientists divide the world into large natural area. Hot or cold; rain or snow; climate

• Tropical rain forest

• Biomes

• Savanna

• Nomad

People who move and travel from one location to another.

• Sahara

• Biomes

• Sahel

• Nomad

A small place in a desert where trees are able to grow and where people can live.

• Sahara

• Oasis

• Biomes

• Savanna

World's largest hot desert where trees are able to grow and where people can live.

• Sahara

• Savanna

• Oasis

• Sahel

Region in which desertification is spreading south from the Sahara.

• Savanna

• Sahel

• Sahara

• Nomad

Land with rolling grassland and scattered trees and shrubs.

• Subsistence farming

• Tropical rain forest

• Savanna

• Biomes

Farming to grow just enough food for survive.

• Sahel

• Tropical rain forest

• Sahara

• Subsistence farming

About 90 percent of West African coastal rainforests have been deforested because of logging, road building, and poor farming.

• Tropical rain forest

• Nomad

• Oasis

• Subsistence farming

What goes around the world and stays in a corner?