West Africa Geography Quiz

What is the term for open grassland with scattered trees?

• sahel

• savanna

• rain forest

• rift

Which term describes West Africa's semi-desert vegetation zone?

• sub-Saharan Africa

• savanna

• sahel

• rain forest

What is the area south of the Sahara Desert called?

• sahel

• sub-Saharan Africa

• savanna

• rift

What is a spoken record of past events known as?

• griots

• oral history

• polytheism

• animism

Who are the West African storytellers?

• griots

• Mansa Musa

• ancestors

• traders

What is the belief in more than one god called?

• animism

• polytheism

• ancestor worship

• matrilineal

What term describes an excess supply of something?

• surplus

• barter

• overgraze

• rift

Who was one of Mali’s most famous leaders who made Timbuktu important?

• griots

• Mansa Musa

• ancestors

• traders

What are moist, densely wooded areas called?

• savanna

• sahel

• rain forests

• rifts

What are long, deep valleys formed by the movement of the earth’s crust?

• savanna

• rifts

• rain forests

• sahel