Africa Climate & Vegetation / HEI

This desert stretches 3,000 miles west to east, 1,200 miles north to south, and is the largest desert in the world

• Kalahari Desert

• Death Valley

• Sahara Desert

• Namib Desert

In the desert, 6,000 feet below the surface are aquifers that hold water. When the water is able to rise and reach the surface, this creates a what?

• Lake

• Oasis

• Sink Hole

• Ocean

90% of the continent of Africa lies in this climate zone. It is the largest of any continent and the temperatures here run high all year long.

• Temperate

• Tundra

• Subtropical

• Tropical

There is a saying in Africa, that the nighttime is the _____ of the tropics?

• winter

• summer

• spring

• fall

The Serengeti Plains are home to a dry climate with hard soil. Making it almost impossible to grow trees and many crops. The conditions here are ideal for growing only ____.

• corn

• tea

• grass

• sugar

This region receives the most rainfall in Africa. It sits near the equator and has a very dense vegetation of trees, plants, and leaves that cause and "umbrella" over the ground.

• Desert

• Grassland

• Rainforest

• Sahel

Majority of the animals in the rainforests of Africa live where?

• The ground floor

• The canopy

• The rivers

• The sky

This farming method is responsible for the destruction of the rainforests in Madagascar.

• Pesticides

• Slash-and-Burn

• Fertilizers

• Irrigation

The process of the expansion of dry conditions into moist areas next to deserts from human activity and nature is known as what?

• Deforestation

• Tilling

• Desertification

• Sahelification

More than ____ oil spills have happened in Nigeria over the last 4 decades with little to no clean-up

• 850

• 1,500

• 6,200

• 4,000