Africa's Geography & The Atlantic Slave Trade

Africa is the ___ largest continent in the world.

• first

• second

• third

• fourth

Africa is made up of ___ countries.

• 25

• 36

• 47

• 54

Africa is divided into ___ geopolitical regions.

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Today, there are estimated to be about ___ ethnic groups living in Africa.

• 3,000

• 2,000

• 150

• 50

True or False: Historically, Africa is the cradle of humanity and the oldest site of human inhabitation.

• True

• False

The shaded yellow region represents which desert?

• Great Basin Desert

• Sahara Desert

• Sonoran Desert

• Atacama Desert

The Sahel is the semiarid region of western and north-central Africa extending from Senegal eastward to Sudan. Which is not an African country that makes up the Sahel?

• Chile

• Mali

• Chad

• Senegal

Underneath the west and central sides of Africa is the Congo River Basin, which is mostly made up of which type of biome?

• tundra

• tropical rainforest

• desert

From the 10th through the 16th centuries, slave markets in areas bordering the ___ featured Christian Slavs from the Eastern Adriatic and the Black Sea, as well as those from Africa and the eastern Mediterranean.

The ​ ​ (a)   in North Africa and the Middle East drew millions of slaves through trade with ​ (b)   ​.

• Islamic world
• Sub-saharan Africa
• Korea