The Sahel is a dry _______________________ region in western Africa.

The Sahel Region is a band from East to West, that includes Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan.

The ___________________________ desert is the largest desert in the world.

An underground water source that provides vegetation and well watered land, in a desert is called an ___________________________.

The CAUSES of desertification are:

An EFFECT of desertification is:

Drylands are places with an abundant supply of water.

In the Sahara and Sahel Region, the countries that are located here, are ____________________________________.

Desertification is NOT a global problem, and only impacts the Sahel region.

Ways of fighting Desertification, are ___________________________________.

Overgrazing means __________________________________________.

Desertification sped up from the late 1960's to the early 1980's because of a severe drought. An effect of this is that ______________________________________________________.

An economic indicator that would be impacted greatly in this region would be which of the following?

With desertification, without the plants that held it in place, the fertile topsoil would be _______________________________.

Human Environmental Interaction is a cause of desertification.

________________________________ crops is defined as growing different crops in a field in different years.

What does the word Nomadic herding mean?

What is millet?

The landscape in the Sahel region includes grasses, bushes, thorny shrubs, acacia trees, and an abundance of natural water supplies.