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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhich phrase best describes the Sahara region?hot, dry desertrolling grasslandtropical rainforestscattered grassland and scrub brush
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a nomad?plantation owners who live along the coastindustrial workers who live in African citiesone who wanders from place to place to find food and waterthose who live and farm in the villages on the edge of the desert
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhat were two of the most important trade goods carried across the Sahara Desert by camel caravan?gold and saltiron and silvergold and silverspices and wood
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat has been the most reliable way to get across the Sahara over the centuries?horsecamelwagonrailroad
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the name for a desert area that gets some rainfall or where there is a spring?oasisTuaragnomadsavanna
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhich phrase best describes the Sahel?an area that borders the desertrolling grasslands and low hillsa desert made up of high sand dunescleared land that was once rainforest
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhy is farming so difficult in the African Sahel?No rain falls in the Sahel at all.Thick grass makes farming difficult.Rainfall can vary widely from year to year.Farm animals in the Sahel eat up all the crops.
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the most common way people make a living in the Sahel?loggingfishing and shipbuildingcaravan trade in gold and saltherding and subsistence farming
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhich is a consequence of cutting down trees for fuel in the Sahel?civil wardesertificationoverpopulationwealthy loggers
- 10. Multiple ChoiceHow large is the region known as the African Sahel?The Sahel is found along the Mediterranean coast.The Sahel makes up the southern half of the country.The Sahel is found just along the west coast of the continent.The region extends from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean just south of the Sahara Desert.
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhich phrase best describes the savanna?a semi-arid region just south of the Sahara Desertan area of harsh desert in the north of the continentgrasslands making up half of the African continentan area of fertile plain along the Mediterranean coast
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhich is found on the African savanna?a heavy jungle canopya wide variety of animalsdry areas with just an occasional oasislots of commercial logging businesses
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhich is the greatest danger for the African savanna today?seasonal fireslogging industriesthe annual droughtactivities of people
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhat are some African countries trying to do to protect the savanna?setting land aside as national parkssetting up zoos for the animals that are threatenedstopping all commercial logging in central Africarefusing to let people move into the savanna area
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhich phrase BEST describes the rainforest?hot and dry desertsemi-arid farmlandrolling grassy plainshumid and warm with thick vegetation
- 16. Multiple ChoiceHow does the African rainforest rank in the world in terms of size?the largest in the worldthe second largest in the worldone of the smallest in the worldlarge but not in comparison with most others in the world
- 17. Multiple ChoiceIn what part of Africa is the largest rainforest found?the Nile River basinthe Niger River basinthe Congo River basinthe Mediterranean coast
- 18. Multiple ChoiceBeginning in the 1800s, what did European nations do that affected the African rainforest?cleared large areas of land for great plantationspassed laws protecting the rainforests from developmentmoved Europeans who had no homes to land in the rainforestshelped African nomads relocate from the desert to farms in the rainforest
- 19. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the definition of "deforestation"?eliminating a species of an animalcreating nature preserves to protect forestscutting down and clearing trees from the areaforcing people to move from cities into traditional forest villages
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhat does it mean if a plant or animal becomes extinct?It begins to smell very bad.That type of animal can be used for food.That type of animal becomes too numerous.There are no more of that type of plant or animal alive in the world.
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhich is a factor in the destruction of the African rainforest?annual grass firesareas of decreasing desertrapidly growing populationdecreased use of wood as fuel
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