| A | B |
|---|
| Savannah | tropical grassland with only a few trees |
| Mangrove | tropical tree with roots both above and beneath water |
| Cacao | Tropical tree whose seeds are used to make chocolate and cocoa |
| Harmattan | A dusty wind from the Sahara Desert |
| Compound | A group of houses surrounded by a wall |
| Overgrazing | grasslands stripped so bare by feeding animals that plants cannot grow back |
| Drought | Long periods of extreme dryness and water shortages |
| Desertification | Process where grassland areas become desert |
| Nok | Earliest known inhabitants of Nigeria |
| 134 million | Population of Nigeria |
| Lagos | The largest city in Nigeria |
| Islam | Religion practiced by most people in the Sahel countries |
| Sahel | Arabic word for "border" |
| Farming | The way most people of the coastal countries of West Africa earn a living |
| Towns and Cities | Where the Tuareg and Fulani have moved because of drought |
