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WorksheetsAfrica Climate & Vegetation / HEI
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
This desert stretches 3,000 miles west to east, 1,200 miles north to south, and is the largest desert in the world
Kalahari Desert
Death Valley
Sahara Desert
Namib Desert
In the desert, 6,000 feet below the surface are aquifers that hold water. When the water is able to rise and reach the surface, this creates a what?
Lake
Oasis
Sink Hole
Ocean
90% of the continent of Africa lies in this climate zone. It is the largest of any continent and the temperatures here run high all year long.
Temperate
Tundra
Subtropical
Tropical
There is a saying in Africa, that the nighttime is the _____ of the tropics?
winter
summer
spring
fall
The Serengeti Plains are home to a dry climate with hard soil. Making it almost impossible to grow trees and many crops. The conditions here are ideal for growing only ____.
corn
tea
grass
sugar
This region receives the most rainfall in Africa. It sits near the equator and has a very dense vegetation of trees, plants, and leaves that cause and "umbrella" over the ground.
Desert
Grassland
Rainforest
Sahel
Majority of the animals in the rainforests of Africa live where?
The ground floor
The canopy
The rivers
The sky
This farming method is responsible for the destruction of the rainforests in Madagascar.
Pesticides
Slash-and-Burn
Fertilizers
Irrigation
The process of the expansion of dry conditions into moist areas next to deserts from human activity and nature is known as what?
Deforestation
Tilling
Desertification
Sahelification
More than ____ oil spills have happened in Nigeria over the last 4 decades with little to no clean-up
850
1,500
6,200
4,000
