15 Questions Topic 14 Lesson 1 Multiple Choice

What are West African storytellers known as?

• Griots

• Bards

• Minstrels

• Skalds

An elevated, flat area of land is known as a:

• Valley

• Plateau

• Basin

• Canyon

What ecosystem is at the very northern and southern tips of Africa?

• Desert

• Rainforest

• Mediterranean

• Savanna

Around the birth of Christ, merchants in northern Africa began to use what animal to get around the desert?

• Horses

• Camels

• Elephants

• Donkeys

Another name for steppe which is in between the Sahara and savanna is:

• Tundra

• Taiga

• Sahel

• Pampas

Which region in Africa receives the most rain?

• sahel

• Kalahari Desert

• rain forest

• Ethiopian Highlands

A natural material that people can use to meet their needs:

• Plastic

• Synthetic fiber

• Natural resource

• Alloy

What brought Africans into contact with one another?

• Isolation

• Trade

• War

• Migration

What group of West Africans, who lived in what is now Nigeria, made iron early on?

• Zulu

• Nok

• Ashanti

• Berber

What kingdom did the Soninke people establish?

• Mali

• Ghana

• Songhai

• Benin