Africa Today Unit Review

Northern Africa is most like what other part of the world?

• United States

• Europe

• Middle East

• Australia

Which two key physical geographic features are found in Northern Africa?

• Nile River

• Euphrates River

• Great Rift Valley

• Sahara Desert

This physical feature is located at number 8?

• Kalahari Desert

• Sahara Desert

• Congo River

• Niger River

A transition zone south of the Sahara, it separates the Sahara from the Tropical Rainforest.

• Savannah

• Sahel

• Nile River

• Lake Victoria

What historical event heavily influenced West Africa?

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Bantu Migration

• Salt Trade

• The Great Migration

The world's largest desert that covers Northern Africa?

• Sahara Desert

• Kalahari Desert

• Taklikaman Desert

• Mojave Desert

What formed the Great Rift Valley?

• Volcanic eruption

• Flooding of the Zambezi River

• Movement of tectonic plates

• Erosion

What are some of the major issues Africans face that keep them from fully utilizing their available resources? (Check all that apply)

• disease

• foreign governments

• poverty and malnourishment

• civil wars and corruption

What was Apartheid in South Africa?

• The extension of voting rights to all people

• The separation of whites and blacks that gave privileges to whites and oppressed black citizens

• The division of South Africa based off religion

• A failure of the United State to monitor the development of a nuclear weapons program

Who was the leader that is credited with the ending of Apartheid in South Africa?

• Patrice Lumumba

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Nelson Mandela

• Gamal Nasser