Africa Test #1 RETAKE Review

Which of the following are effects of desertification in Africa?

• People and animals starve

• Inability to grow crops

• Erosion

• Land is better for farming

• Food shortages

What are the causes and effects of deforestation?

Groups:

(a) Causes

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(b) Effects

• Selling wood for money

• Cleared to build roads

• Loss of animal habitats

• Loss of prodcuts such as foods & medicines

• Area becomes drier & hotter which leads to desertification

• Soil erosion

• Land is needed for crops or cattle

• Clearning land to build homes & businesses

What are the causes & effects of desertification?

Groups:

(a) Causes

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(b) Effects

• Droughts

• Food shortages

• Cutting down trees

• Overgrazing animals

• Land is less productive

• Forced migration

Due to desertification the ____________ continues to grow larger.

• Sahara

• Nile River

• Savanna

• Rainforest

Besides the deserts, the ____________ is very difficult to live in because of desertification and overgrazing

• Sahel

• Congo Rainforest

• Arctic Tundra

• Mediterranean Sea

_______ is process in which a desert spreads.

• deforestation

• desertification

• famine

• scarcity

What are some effects of water scarcity?

• Disease

• Land is less suitable for growing crops

• Lack of clean water

• Forced migration of people

• Crops thrive and food production increases

_______ is the removal, or cutting down, of trees quicker than they are replanted.

• deforestation

• desertification

• scarcity

• famine

What were the effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Africa?

• Tribal leaders were forcibly removed

• Tribal leaders were able to stay in power with compliance to the Europeans

• Families were torn apart

• Tribal leaders were successful in ridding the Europeans

• African communities were weakened

What were the effects of the slave trade in the Americas?

• Many people are descendents of slaves

• It has shaped cultures in the Americas

• Freed slaves took control of the regions

• Languages, customs, and traditions were shared

• There were no effects in the Americas