Africa study sheet Flashcards
(26 cards)
what is the western point of the Arab world?
Maghreb
what are the lands west of Egypt?
Morocco, tunisia, algeria, libya
what is the nomadic tribe of the French Sahel?
Tuaregs
what was a program of racial segregation?
Apartheid
what is the world’s largest swamp?
Sudd
who were the original inhabitants of the Maghreb?
Berbers
who became kenya’s first president?
Jomo kenyatta
what is the largest freshwater lake?
Lake Victoria
what is the large peninsula that resembles the horn of a rhino
Horn of Africa
who was Ghana’s first president?
Nkrumah
what separates Madagascar from africa?
Mozambique channel
what is Southern Africa’s largest desert region?
Kalahari
what is the small peninsula at the southwestern tip of the continent?
Cape of good hope
who was the first president of south africa?
Nelson mandela
what are the 6 most important rivers?
Congo, orange, nile, niger, limpopo, Zambezi
who traced the Congo to its source in 1877?
Henry M. Stanley
what is the world’s longest freshwater lake?
Tanganyika
what are open-air markets?
Bazaraazs
who deposed the Libyan pro-Western king and established a military dictatorship?
Qaddafi
what is the enormous fracture in the earth’s surface begins in Asia’s Jordan River valley, continues beneath the Red Sea, and cuts through Africa from Ethiopia to Mozambique?
Great Rift Valley
what is the most common disease in africa?
Malaria
what is the 2nd highest peak in africa?
Mnt. Kenya
what is the pagan tribal belief that natural objects are inhabited by spirits?
Animism
who became the first bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church?
Frumentius
