Annual rainfall in the Sahara ranges between . . .

The Moors have an ancestry of mixed . . .

The official language of Mali and Niger is . . .

The only country of the Sahel that has a seacoast is . . .

The process whereby the grasses and trees of an area die out and are replaced by dry wilderness is called . . .

Which ancient empire controlled the gold trade on the trade routes across the Sahel from the fourth to the thirteenth centuries?

An early and valuable commodity traded by the people of Mali for gold was . . .

The capital of Mali and the largest city in the Sahel is . . .

Which king of the Mali Empire made a pilgrimage to Mecca with great wealth and a caravan of sixty thousand people in 1324?

Which city has become the epitome of a remote and mysterious civilization?

The low Aïr Mountains in the northern part of Niger are called the . . .

What mountain range in Niger is known as the "Switzerland of the desert"?

White desert nomads who live in Niger are called . . .

Which of the following is not one of the three countries that form the Maghreb?

Which peoples were the first settlers in the Maghreb?

What is the official language of the Maghreb?

Which country of Northern Africa has coasts on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?

The culture of Casablanca is a mixture of Arab and which two European cultures?

What is the phosphate-rich area between Morocco and Mauritania that Morocco controls?

To what natural disasters is Algeria prone?

Areas of drifting, blowing sand in the Sahara south of the Atlas Mountains are called . . .

Shallow salt lakes in the desert are called . . .

One advantage that Tunisia has over most of the other Northern African countries is its . . .

With which Egyptian ruler did Israel's prime minister sign a peace treaty in 1977?

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What is the name of the world's largest desert?

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Because it was populated by the Berbers, by what earlier name was the Maghreb called?

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What is the name of the region encompassing Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco?

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Which ancient city of Tunisia controlled trade passing through the western Mediterranean?

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Which city is the capital and largest city of Libya?

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Which country has the largest population in the Arab world?

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What is the most important river in the Sahel?

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What is the most important body of water in the Sahel?

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What body of water extends south in the center of Libya?

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Which river is the lifeblood of Egypt?

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Which man-made waterway links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?

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What fifteen-hundred-mile mountain chain lies along the northwest coast of Africa?

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What narrow body of water separates Morocco from Europe?

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Algeria

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Chad

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Egypt

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Libya

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Mali

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Mauritania

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Morocco

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Niger

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Tunisia