West Africa Physical features

A network of channels, swamps and lakes

• Cataract

• Niger river

• Inland delta

• Zonal

They stretch east to west in bands or Zones

• overgrazing

• Zonal

• climate

• mountains

Causes of desertification

• overgrazing

• Too many trees cut down

• Soil loss

• All

It is an area of plenty of rainfall and water for farming and transportation.

• desertification

• plantation

• coastal plains

• Sahel

physical features in West Africa

• Mostly plains

• Mostly mountains

• Few plains

• Few rivers

Sahara expanding ,loss of farmland and people must move from area.

• Causes of desertification

• Effects of desertification

• Savanah tropical

• Humid tropical

Where do you think most of the crops in West Africa are grown?

• Tropical Savanah

• Humid tropical

• Desert

• Steppe

What is the most valuable resource in West Africa?

• Bauxite

• Iron ore

• Cacao

• Oil

What is one similarity between Sahel and Savanah?

• Agriculture

• Industry

• Tall grasses

• Forests

How do you think desertification affects people's life?

• It takes away wind and the climate becomes hotter

• It takes away land that could be used for farming and cattle grazing

• It takes away water

• It takes away the Inland delta