Wild Card Geography of Africa Five Themes HistoryStatistics 200

1. World Largest HOT desert Click here to check your answer

1. What is the Sahara? Back to Jeopardy Board

2.World Longest River Click here to check your answer

2. What is the Nile River Back to Jeopardy Board

3. Dry region just south of the Sahara Desert, includes countries such as Mali, and Chad. Click here to check your answer

3. What is the Sahel Back to Jeopardy Board

4.Most people in Africa are subsistence farmers. What does subsistence farming mean? Click here to check your answer

4. A subsistence farmer grows just enough food for himself and his family. Very little, or no extra food.

5. This is the world’s 2nd largest rainforest Click here to check your answer

5. What is the Congo Rainforst/Congo Basin Rainforest

6. What does literacy rate mean? Click here to check your answer

6. What is the % of a nations population that can read and write Back to Jeopardy Board

7. If a nation has a very low urban population (like in Kenya), where do most people live? Click here to check your answer

7. Most people live in rural areas - the country - not a big city - on small farms. Back to Jeopardy Board

8. What statistic might give us an idea of the quality of medical care in a country? Click here to check your answer

8. What is life expectancy, infant mortality, doctors per 1,000 ppl … Back to Jeopardy Board

9. What continent has the largest % of undernourished/hungry people Click here to check your answer

9. What is Africa? Back to Jeopardy Board

10. What is a drought and how could it lead to hunger? Click here to check your answer

10. A drought is very little rainfall. Without rain, crops don’t grow and subsistence farmers and their families go hungry Back to Jeopardy Board

11. What is imperialism? Click here to check your answer

11. When one country takes over another Back to Jeopardy Board

12. What European nation colonized (took over) the most land in Africa? Check your answer

12. What is Great Britain. Back to Jeopardy Board

13. Apartheid was practiced in South Africa after the end of colonization there. What does apartheid mean? Click here to check your answer

13. Apartness, racial segregation Back to Jeopardy Board

14. What country did the Lost Boys have to leave because of civil war? Click here to check your answer

14. What is Sudan? Back to Jeopardy Board

15. Why do enemy tribes live together in some African nations? Click here to check your answer

15. Many political borders in Africa were drawn by Europeans during Imperialism Back to Jeopardy Board

16. Latitude and longitude make up which theme of geography Click here to check your answer

16.What is location/abosolute location Back to Jeopardy Board

Click here to check your answer 17. The endangerment of the African Elephant is part of which theme?

17. What is HEI (human environment interaction)? Back to Jeopardy Board

18. The refugees known as the lost boys would best fit into what theme? Click here to check your answer

18. What is movement Back to Jeopardy Board

19. Religion is part of which theme of geography? Click here to check your answer

19. What is human characteristics of place Back to Jeopardy Board

20. This nation colonized the Western REGION of Africa Click here to check your answer

20. Who are the French? Back to Jeopardy Board

21. Show the class which way latitude runs Click here to check your answer

21. What is horizontal? BackBack to Jeopardy Board

22. Who became the first black president of South Africa? Click here to check your answer X

22. Who is Nelson Mandela Back to Jeopardy Board

23. What two nations remained free during imperialism? Click here to check your answer

23. What are Ethiopia and Liberia? Back to Jeopardy Board

24. In what region of Africa is desertification a problem? Click here to check your answer

24. What is the Sahel Back to Jeopardy Board

25. What does per capita GDP stand for and MEAN. Click here to check your answer

25. Per capita GDP means gross domestic product per person. It measures everything a nation makes/produces/sells and divides that by the population in a country Back to Jeopardy Board