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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
In sub-Saharan Africa, less than 50% of the population has access to safe drinking water because of environmental pollution. How has this shortage of safe drinking water most likely affected development in sub-Saharan Africa?
It has slowed economic growth.
It has increased the size of the Sahara.
It has increased population growth.
It has slowed deforestation of the rainforest.
What effect does poor soil and deforestation have on land in Africa?
Land is excellent for archaeological dig sites.
Land becomes useless for agriculture.
Land becomes part of national park systems.
Land becomes a better place to raise a family.
In the Sahel, overgrazing and drought have resulted in a decrease in the steppe region and increase of the Sahara. What is this process called?
Deforestation
Desertification
Unequal Distribution
Environmental Pollution
Which of the following would be a result of fertilizer running off of fields near the Nile river?
The Sahara desert would creep into the Sahel and cause deforestation there.
The water would becomes extremely good for irrigation and for people to drink because of the extra nutrients.
The Sahel would spread into the Sahara causing there to be less land available for grazing of animals in the Sahara.
The water would become polluted and not use-able for drinking or irrigation.
If African's living in the Sahel know that their nomadic and semi-nomadic herding lifestyles are causing desertification, why do they keep doing it?
They need to feed their families and it is the only economic opportunity they have.
They are more concerned with becoming wealthy than they are with protecting the environment.
They farm land is so good in the Sahel that they get bored and look for something else to do.
They believe spreading the desert will eventually result in more arable land in the region.
Which of the following is most likely the reason for the thin line of densely populated area in the northeastern corner of Africa?
The Niger River
Lake Victoria
The Atlas Mountians
The Nile River
What process is destroying trees?
Desertification
Defrostation
Devastation
Deforestation
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