WorksheetsUnit 7 Sub-Sahara Final
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The Great Rift Valley lies along the ____________ of the African continent.
North
East
South
West
The process where fertile land turns into desert, usually caused by overgrazing is called
Desertification
Dessert
Depiction
Divide
Physical process in which soil and rock is moved by wind or water.
Erase
Eradicate
Erosion
Exterminate
The _______ river is the longest river in the world that transports goods and people (flowing North) through Egypt
Zambezi
Congo
Nile
Niger
1. Africa is the second largest continent after ___________.
America
Asia
Antartica
Australia
Many people in Africa do not have access to safe drinking water because the water is ____________ .
safe
underground
evaporated
Contaminated
1. Other than the Sahara and Kalahari what is the 3rd desert in Africa?
Nile
Namib
Niger
Malawi
This man-made feature has been a major point of friction in Egypt so much so that in 1956 it was invaded by Britain, France and Israel for control of it.
East African Rift
Suez Canal
Atlas Mountain
Nile River
1. A _________________ has Hot, dry grasslands with lots of wildlife located north and south of the equator.
Sahara
Savana
Sahel
Desert
Besides Savanna, Desert and Sahel, what is the 4th major African climate?
East African Rift
Lake
River
Tropical Rain forest
1. Before European interests into Africa, ____________________ crossed the Sahara desert transporting Gold, Ivory, and Slaves.
Arabs
Mongols
Russians
Aztec
The “Golden King”, ruled over the Mali Empire and traveled to Mecca which peaked the interest of Europeans was _____.
Mansa Musa
Christopher Columbus
Nelson Mandela
Leopold II of Belgium
By 1914, Africa was divided between 7 different European countries with the exception of Ethiopia and the American established ______________.
Ghana
Egypt
South Africa
Liberia
___________ was a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s.
Opennes
Liberation
Apertheid
Democracy
This figure was imprisoned in Robbin Island but eventually was elected to president of South Africa in 1994.
Leopold II of Belgium
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
