| A | B |
| Slash and burn farming | Creates ashes to enrich soil |
| Shifting cultivation | helps restore soil's nutrients |
| South Africa's economy | Strong and diverse |
| South Africa's oldest industrial center | Witwatersrand |
| South Africa | World's largest supplier of gold |
| Cattle | Status symbol in East and Equatorial Africa |
| Barter | Swapping goods |
| East and Equatorial Africa | Not industrially developed |
| East Africa's main ways of making a living | Herding, farming, fishing |
| desertification | expansion of a desert |
| Sahel | a dry grassland near the Sahara |
| subsistence farmers | only grow enough for their families |
| cash crops | coffee, cacao, bananas |
| Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast | building mills and factories to process crops |
| Senegal | economy depends on peanut prices |
| fellahin | Egyptian farmers |
| Aswan High Dam | stops floods and stores water |
| Morocco | Only North African country producing enough to feed its people |
| labor intensive | work done by people |
| silt | benefit of floodwaters, enriches soil |