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WorksheetsWest Africa Review
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What does it mean to be organized by zone?
a)
Zonal
b)
zoned
c)
zonified
d)
zelous
2.
What is a strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas?
a)
Sand lot
b)
Sahel
c)
Savanna
d)
Secede
3.
What is the spread of desert like conditions?
a)
Savanna
b)
Deforestation
c)
Desertification
d)
Sahel
4.
What is an area of tall grasses and scattered trees and shrubs?
a)
Sahel
b)
Savanna
c)
Famine
d)
Hot Zone
5.
What is the belief that bodies of water, animals , trees and other natural objects have spirits?
a)
Animism
b)
Sectionalism
c)
Catholicism
d)
Lifism
6.
What does it mean, to break away from the main country?
a)
Leave
b)
Oppose
c)
Justify
d)
Secede
7.
This is an extreme shortage of food.....
a)
Famine
b)
Fellowship
c)
Secede
d)
Animism
8.
What is the physical geography of West Africa like?
a)
plains and rivers
b)
deserts
c)
savanas
d)
all of these are found in West Africa
9.
How do you think desertification affects the people of West Africa?
a)
takes away land for grazing
b)
adds to the crop amount
c)
increases areas for homes
d)
increases habitat for plants
10.
What is West Africa’s most valuable resource?
a)
oil
b)
water
c)
sand
d)
salt
11.
What do we call a process in which people exchange goods without ever contacting each other?
a)
trade routes
b)
silent barter
c)
flipping the coin
d)
silent trade
12.
What do you call a building for Muslim prayer?
a)
Savanna
b)
Church
c)
Museum
d)
Mosque
13.
What is a spoken record of past events?
a)
Journal
b)
Recording
c)
Oral history
d)
History book
14.
What are highly respected storytellers of early West Africa called?
a)
Gamblers
b)
Traditionals
c)
Griots
d)
Kente
15.
What are short saying of wisdom and truth?
a)
Poems
b)
Proverbs
c)
Passages
d)
Pamphlets
16.
What do you call hand-woven, brightly colored fabric?
a)
Kente
b)
Griots
c)
Wraps
d)
Scarves
17.
What were the two most valuable resources traded in Ghana?
a)
salt and gold
b)
glass and oil
c)
salt and sugar
d)
salt and pepper
18.
Who was Mansa Musa?
a)
ruler of Mali
b)
Muslim king
c)
traveler to Mecca
d)
all of these are true
19.
Why were griots and their stories important in West African society?
a)
they kept history alive
b)
they count the gold
c)
they bury the dead
d)
they make memories
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