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IMPACT OF LOCATION, CLIMATE AND PHYSCAL CHARACTERISTICS ON POPULATION DISTRIBUTION IN AFRICA. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Be able to give major causes of DESERTIFICATION
a) Overused by grazing animals, overused by farming, wind blows topsoil away, drought, land cleared for logging and farming
b) Strip of dry grassy land; dry semi-arid region slowly turning into desert; relatively flat with a few hills and Mountains
c) People who wander from place to place on camels looking for food and water
d) The follow traditional ways such as herding animals and living semi-nomadic lives

Be able to give the devastation facts about DEFORESTATION.
a) Overused by grazing animals, overused by farming, wind blows topsoil away, drought, land cleared for logging and farming
b) Fertile topsoil erodes, people move to the cities, then desertification
c) Strip of dry grassy land; dry semi-arid region slowly turning into desert; relatively flat with a few hills and Mountains
d) A consequence of cutting down trees for fuel is desertification.

Describe the MAJOR use of the Niger River?
a) Human/animal waste, snails, worms, insect larvae, overpopulation, poor sanitation
b) Contamination with human/industrial waste, overpopulation and poor sanitation
c) Transportation and agricultures
d) Fertile topsoil erodes, people move to the cities, then desertification

Major problems facing people who depend on Nile River for their water.
a) Transportation and agricultures
b) Fertile topsoil erodes, people move to the cities, then desertification
c) Contamination with human/industrial waste, overpopulation and poor sanitation
d) Human/animal waste, snails, worms, insect larvae, overpopulation, poor sanitation

What threatens clean water supplies in Africa?
a) Human/animal waste, snails, worms, insect larvae, overpopulation, poor sanitation
b) Contamination with human/industrial waste, overpopulation and poor sanitation
c) Transportation and agricultures
d) Fertile topsoil erodes, people move to the cities, then desertification

Be able to describe the Sahel region of Africa
a) Strip of dry grassy land; dry semi-arid region slowly turning into desert; relatively flat with a few hills and Mountains
b) aa
c)
d) The follow traditional ways such as herding animals and living semi-nomadic lives

What is a NOMAD?
a) aaaaa
b) aa
c) aa
d) aa

How people make a living in the Sahel
a) aa
b) aa
c) aa
d) aa

Be able to tell what a consequence of cutting down trees for fuel in the Sahel.
a) 11
b) aa
c) 11
d) 11

Be able to tell what some African countries are doing to protect the Savanna.
a) 11
b) Some countries are setting aside large areas of the Savanna as national parks and game reserves
c) 11
d) 11

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