Sub Saharan Africa Vocabulary

A river drained by a river system

• Basin

• Escarpment

• Valley

• Watershed

The common language between speakers of different languages

• Mother Tongue

• Lingua Franca

• Bi-lingual

• Multi-lingual

Tropical grasslands

• Praire

• Plains

• Savannas

• Steppes

An area with dense vegetation, abundant rainfall and high humidity.

• Savanna

• Escarpment

• Desert

• Rainforest

Cutting down all of the trees in an area for buildings or farming

• Desertification

• Escarpment

• Deforestation

• Basin

What type of plate boundary created the Great Rift Valley?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Subduction Zone

The farmers land turned to desert because he planted the same crops over and over again. This is an example of what?

• Deforestation

• Crop Rotation

• Desertification

• Savanna

The Atlas Mountains, Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya are examples of what?

• Valleys

• Plateaus

• Savannas

• Highlands

The explorers could not travel any further because the _____________________ was too steep.

• Escarpment

• Highlands

• Plateau

• Cliff

What is the name of the region we are studying?

• Africa

• Sub Saharan Africa

• East Africa

• North Africa