Africa vocab pt 1

-rich soil made up of sand and mud deposited by running water

• Alluvial soil

• Nomads

• Sahel

desert in N Africa largest, hot desert in the world

• Sahara Desert

• Aquifer

• Nile River

-member of wandering pastoral people

• Nomads

• Prophet

• domesticate

-belief in right of nation to be an independent state

• Nationalism / Self-Rule

• Nomads

• Wadi

-underground water-bearing layers of porous rock, sand, or gravel

• Aquifier

• delta

• choke points

flat plain that stretches about 3300 miles and forms a transition zone beteen N and S Africa

• Sahel
• dunes
• Mosque

-fixed limit or extent that typically follows straight lines

• Geometric boundaries
• alluvial soil
• peninsula

-world's longest river

• Nile River

• Sahel

• Nationalism

-in the desert, a streambed that is dry except during a heavy rain

• Wadi

• Sahara Desert

• Monsoon

to tame; to bring plants or animals under human control

• domesticate
• dunes
• choke points