Sub-Saharan Africa 1

When Europeans carved up different countries in Africa, it was called the -

• Scramble for Africa

• Apartheid

• Sudan Conflict

• Iron Curtain

largest desert in Africa

• Sahara Desert

• Gobi Desert

• Kalahari Desert

• Atacama Desert

Due to desertification the ____________ continues to grow larger

• Sahara

• Nile River

• Savanna

• Rainforest

Largest rainforest in Africa

• Amazon

• Congo

• Australia

• Indoneisa

Besides the deserts, the ____________ is very difficult to live in because of desertification and overgrazing

• Sahel

• Amazon Rainforest

• Arctic Tundra

• Mediterranean Sea

Africa's continuous geographical trench

• Great Rift Valley

• Nile River

• Lake Victoria

• Sahara Desert

Highest mountain in Africa

• Mt. Kilimanjaro

• Mt. Everest

• Mt. Meru

• Mt. Elgon

lands around this physical feature are also where some of the oldest hominid, or pre-human, fossils have been found by archaeologists

• Great Rift Valley

• Nile River

• Sahara Desert

• Sahel

This physical feature is shrinking due to deforestation in Africa

• Congo Rainforest

• Amazon Rainforest

• Sahara Desert

• Great Barrier Reef

strip of dry grassland, south of the Sahara Desert

• Sahel

• Serengeti

• Kalahari

• Savanna