Warm up Africa

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

• Scramble for Africa

• Apartheid

• Sudan Conflict

• Iron Curtain

Due to desertification the ____________ continues to grow larger

• Sahara

• Nile River

• Savanna

• Rainforest

This physical feature is shrinking due to deforestation in Africa

• Congo Rainforest

• Amazon Rainforest

• Sahara Desert

• Great Barrier Reef

Identify the different types of physical features that are found in Africa

• Sahara Desert

• Amazon Rainforest

• Congo Rainforest

• Atlas Mountains

• Savanna

Meeting between the Europeans to peacefully divide up parts of the African continent

• Berlin Conference

• Berlin Wall

• Yalta Conference

• Congo Conference

Reasons for European colonization in Africa (check all that apply)

• Africa had many resources

• for profit

• European powers to expand their empires and influence

• Europeans were bored

extreme scarcity of food causing hunger and starvation, possibly death

• famine

• desertification

• deforestation

• scarcity

effects of desertification (check all that apply)

• crops die and leads to food shortages

• deforestation

• erosion

• people & animals starve

Identify all the effects of European colonization in Africa

• Europeans forced the African people to convert to Christianity and learn English

• They lived together peacefully

• Europeans took resources from African land

• Slave Trade

• Ethnic conflict

Effect of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

• African families were torn apart

• African people joined together to revolt

• Tribal leaders gained more power

• The slave trade had no effect