West Africa

A________ is a strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas

• plateau

• oasis

• sahel

• lake

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.

• Nile

• Niger

• Mississippi

• Amazon

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

was a cultural center in West Africa.

• Rome

• Cairo

• Timbuktu

• Athens

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

• Bill Gates

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Jeff Bezos

• Mansa Musa

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

• Desertification

• Zonal

• Sahel

• Savanna

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

• Animism

• Christianity

• Islam

• Taoism

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

• zonal

• savanna

• desertification

• humid

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

• clan

• extended family

• external family

• open house

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.

• Arabain

• Gobi

• Sahara

• Syrian

To_______ means to break away from the main country.

• export

• fight

• quit

• secede