African Geography Vocab

The destruction of trees and other vegetation

• Reforestation
• Urbanization
• Soil Erosion
• Deforestation

An extended period of time without rainfall

• drought
• blizzard
• hurricane
• flood

An initiative to increase the amount of arable land in the Sahel, the region bordering Africa's Sahara Desert.

• Desertification Prevention Program
• Great Green Wall Initiative
• Sahel Agricultural Development Plan
• Sahara Reforestation Project

A great desert located in the southern part of Africa.

• Kalahari Desert
• Atacama Desert
• Gobi Desert
• Sahara Desert

The longest river in the world. Begins in the central mountains of Africa, runs through Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt, and flows northward to the Mediterranean Sea.

• Amazon River
• Yangtze River
• Mississippi River
• Nile River

A small place in the desert where trees are able to grow and where people can live with grazing animals and a few crops.

• Oasis

• Ranch
• Orchard
• Farmhouse

Areas with hot, humid, tropical climates and dense, evergreen forests

• Savanna grasslands
• Desert biomes
• Temperate deciduous forests
• Tropical rainforests

The largest hot desert on planet Earth

• Gobi Desert
• Kalahari Desert
• Atacama Desert
• Sahara Desert

A dry, semi-arid region south of the Sahara Desert

• Kalahari
• Savanna
• Nile Valley
• Sahel

A vast area of both grassland and more tropical habitats in the middle of Africa close to the equator

• rainforest

• desert

• savanna

• sahel