The most important river in West Africa. It flows for 2600 miles into the interior of the region before emptying into the Gulf of Guinea.

With more than 100 schools, universities and mosques, _____________,

was a cultural center in West Africa.

The Mali King, ____, was the richest person that ever lived on earth.

______________is an area of tall grasses and scattered trees and shrubs.

_________is the belief that bodies of water, animal, trees, and other natural objects have spirits.

West Africa has 4 different climate regions. Because of this, geographers say this region's climates are____________, which means "organized in zones."

An _______ includes the father, mother, children and close relatives in ONE household.

The region we call West Africa stretches from the ______ desert in the north to the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the 3rd largest desert in the world. The Antarctic and Arctic are the world's largest deserts.

To_______ means to break away from the main country.

Mali's most famous king.

Two of the earliest kingdoms in West Africa that controlled the Sahara trade in gold and salt.

Between 1500 and 1870, British, french, Dutch, Portuguese,and Spanish traders sent millions on enslaved Africans to colonies in the Americas. This was known as

________ has some of Africa's richest natural resources. Major oil fields are located here which account for 95% of the country's export earnings.

In 2005, locusts and drought destroyed Niger's crop. A __ is an extreme shortage of food .

The Sahel is becoming more like the Sahara desert because of ___________ which means the spread of of desertlike conditions.

West Africa has ____ climate types.