| A | B |
|---|
| ergs | huge areas of shifting sand dunes |
| Algiers | largest country in NORTH Africa |
| Madagascar | largest island in Africa |
| Ra | Eqyptian sun god |
| Osiris | Egyptian god associated with mummification |
| Big Five | leopards, lions, Cape Buffalo, rhinos, African Elephants |
| Tunisia | smallest NORTH African country |
| Sychelles | Island country with smallest land mass in Africa |
| Libya | driest country in Africa |
| Cairo | largest city in Africa |
| drought | extreme shortage of water |
| Burundi | country where Nile begins |
| enclave | small country surrounded by a larger one |
| Sudan | largest country in African continent |
| Nile | early civilization developed along this river |
| Sahel | strip of land bordering a desert |
| Sahara | largest desert in the world |
| Nile River | river that is 4,180 miles long |
| tell | Arabic word meaning "hill" |
| fellahin | Egyptian farmer |
| Khufu | king the Great Pyramid was built for |
| Serengeti | animal preserve in hot, dry grassland |
| Howard Carter | discovered King Tuts tomb |
| Valley of the Kings | burial place of Egyptian kings-pyramids built there |
| Lake Victoria | Lake the Nile comes from |
| Hieroglyphics | ancient Egyptina writing |
| None | amount of rainforest left in 2050 if current destruction continues |
| Aswan High Dam | structure in Egypt that is turning land into a desert |
| Suez Canal | structure that's a point of dispute between European countries and Egypt |
| Egypt | country that blocked the Suez Canal |
| half | how much snow has disappeared from Mt. Killimanjaro in the last 10 years? |
| Nelson Mandela | first black president of South Africa |
| apartheid | segregation in South Africa |
| 10% | Amount of original rainforest remaining |
| HIV | 5.5 million cases of this have been reported in South Africa |
| Uganda | country with many child soldiers |
| Liberia | country created by ex-slaves |
| Darfur | area in Sudan where genocide is going on |
| Indian Ocean | ocean east of Africa |
| Atlantic | ocean west of Africa |
| Red Sea | body of water Suez canal connects to the Mediterannean |
| Mediterranean Sea | body of water on north side of Africa |
| Cape of Good Hope | Tip of Africa |
| Nile River | river that flows north in north east Africa |
| map | something I need to be able to label |
| South Africa | country with the most cases of AIDS |
| Mt. Killimanjaro | tallest mountain in Africa |
