Africa's Geography

suitable for growing crops

• arable

• arid

• deforestation

• descendant

a climate that is dry with very little rainfall

• arable

• arid

• cash crop

• deforestation

 a crop grown for the purpose of selling it rather than consuming it

• cash crop

• deforestation

• descendant

• desertification

removal of trees and other vegetation to make land available for other uses

• descendant

• desertification

• deforestation

• drought

a person, plant, or animal that is the offspring of a particular ancestor

• desertification

• drought

• erosion

• descendant

the process by which a desert spreads because soil around it loses its ability to hold water

• desertificatiion

• drought

• erosion

• famine

a long period of dry weather with little or no rain

• erosion

• drought

• famine

• indigenous

the wearing away of rock, land, soil or a physical feature by the action of wind, water, or ice

• famine

• indigenous

• infrastructure

• erosion

an extreme, widespread shortage of food, often resulting in much suffering, illness, and death

• indigenous

• infrastructure

• famine

• irrigation

originating from or first to live in a particular region or environment

• indigenous

• infrastructure

• irrigation

• migrate