2. DOUBLE JEOPARDY! AFRICA: LPS GEOGRAPHY STANDARD 4.2 review

3. LPS Standard 4.2 Objectives 4.2.1Define weathering and erosion 4.2.2Identify world climate regions and their characteristics ｷ Tropical (Rainforest, Grassland or Savanna) ｷ Dry/Arid (Desert) ｷ Moderate/Mid-latitude ｷ Continental (Humid, Subtropical) ｷ Polar (Tundra, Icecap) ｷ Highlands (Mountainous) 4.2.3Define ecosystem and biome 4.2.4Analyze how climates and ecosystems affect settlement patterns 4.2.5Describe how humans impact ecosystems 4.2.6Describe how weathering, erosion, and desertification shape the geography of Africa

4. EcosystemsClimates Human Impact on Ecosystems Africa Just Because Terms 200 400 600 800 1000 DOUBLE JEOPARDY! FINAL JEOPARDY

5. Ecosystems - 200 Warm plentiful rainfall with tall trees that form a dense canopy above.

6. Ecosystems - 200 answer What is Tropical Rainforest?

7. Ecosystems - 400 Warm all year, wet and dry seasons, grassland with scattered trees and other plants.

8. Ecosystems - 400 answer What is Tropical Grassland (acc. Savanna)?

9. Ecosystems - 600 Scarce rainfall, extreme temperatures, cactus, etc.

10. Ecosystems - 600 answer What is desert?

11. Ecosystems - 800 Always cool or cold, specialized plants like lichens, mosses, no trees.

12. Ecosystems - 800 answer What is tundra?

13. Ecosystems - 1000 What three things interact and combine to form an ecosystem?

14. Ecosystems - 1000 answer What are plants, animals and the physical environment in which they live?

15. Climates - 200 Water that falls to the earth’s surface.

16. Climates - 200 answer What is precipitation?

17. Climates - 400 Day on which the sun is directly overhead the earth’s equator.

18. Climates - 400 answer What is an equinox?

19. Climates - 600 What prevents the sun’s heat from escaping back into space too quickly?

20. Climates - 600 answer What is the atmosphere?

21. Climates - 800 Climate regions are classified mainly on the basis of several things. Name 2 of those things.

22. Climates - 800 answer What are: elevation, seasonal temperature (acc. Temperature), precipitation, and latitude?

23. Climates - 1000 The rotation of the earth causes winds to blow in curved lines. What is this called?

24. Climates - 1000 answer What is the Coriolis Effect?

25. Human Impact on Ecosystems - 200 The Aswan High is one of these… used to control flooding on the Nile River.

26. Human Impact on Ecosystems - 200 answer What is a dam?

27. Human Impact on Ecosystems - 400 Destruction of this ‘transition’ region has been caused by overgrazing of cattle and other livestock.

28. Human Impact on Ecosystems - 400 answer What is the Sahel?

29. Human Impact on Ecosystems - 600 The two most common economic activities in all of sub-Saharan Africa.

30. Human Impact on Ecosystems - 600 answer What are subsistence farming and nomadic herding?

31. Human Impact on Ecosystems - 800 Kenya has promoted economic growth by encouraging the planting of coffee and tea. The term for products like coffee and tea to be sold in a commercial market is _______ ________.

32. Human Impact on Ecosystems - 800 answer What are cash crops?

33. Human Impact on Ecosystems - 1000 When sands encroach on land with vegetation, what is the process that occurs known as?

34. Human Impact on Ecosystems - 1000 answer What is desertification?

35. Africa Just Because - 200 Africa has hundreds of these which make communication difficult at times.

36. Africa Just Because - 200 answer What are languages?

37. Africa Just Because - 400 Travel from the interior of Africa to the coasts via river can be difficult because of these.

38. Africa Just Because - 400 answer What are waterfalls (acc. Cataracts)?

39. Africa Just Because - 600 What two European Countries held the most colonial possessions in Africa at the beginning of the 20th century?

40. Africa Just Because - 600 answer What are France and Great Britain?

41. Africa Just Because - 800 The Libyan, Namib, and Kalahari are examples of this type of biome.

42. Africa Just Because - 800 answer What are deserts?

43. Africa Just Because - 1000 Besides drought and starvation, what has been the number one killer of Africans for the past several decades?

44. Africa Just Because - 1000 answer What is AIDS?

45. Terms - 200 Elevated land with a flat or gently rolling surface. Most of Africa is this.

46. Terms - 200 answer What is a Plateau?

47. Terms - 400 Another name for a major type of ecosystem.

48. Terms - 400 answer What is a biome?

49. Terms - 600 Maple, Oak, Elm, Ash, etc. are all examples of this kind of tree.

50. Terms - 600 answer What are deciduous trees?

51. Terms - 800 Another word for cliff.

52. Terms - 800 answer What is an escarpment?

53. Terms - 1000 A type of ‘scrubby’ vegetation found in dry regions and particularly a Mediterranean climate.

54. Terms - 1000 answer What is chaparral?

55. FINAL JEOPARDY! The area around the Equator experiences virtually no wind. What is the name of this ‘windless’ phenomenon that historically sailors hated?

56. FINAL JEOPARDY! ANSWER What are the “Doldrums”?