Africa Vocabulary Quiz

Open grassland with scattered trees.

• Savanna

• Sahel

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Sahara Desert

West Africa’s semi-desert vegetation zone.

• Savanna

• Sahel

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Sahara Desert

Africa south of the Sahara Desert.

• Savanna

• Sahel

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Sahara Desert

Spoken record of past events.

• Oral History

• Polytheism

• Grots

• Animism

West African storytellers.

• Sahel

• Mansa Musa

• Surplus

• Griots

Belief in more than one god.

• Ancestor Worship

• Animism

• Polytheism

• Oral History

An excess supply of something.

• Surplus

• Griots

• Sahel

• Matrilineal

One of Mali’s most famous leaders who made Timbuktu into an important city.

• Mansa Musa

• Sundiata Keita

• Askia Muhammad

• Ahmad al-Mansur

Moist, densely wooded areas.

• Arid deserts

• Alpine meadows

• Rain Forests

• Sahara Desert

Long, deep valleys formed by movement of the earth’s crust.

• Rifts

• Canyons

• Faults

• Gorges