| A | B |
|---|
| Desertification | Turing semiarid land into desert land |
| Leaching | Heavy rain that wash away the nutrients in soil |
| Kilimanjaro | Highest volcanic peak on Africa |
| Savanna | Grasslands of Africa where big game animals are found |
| aparteid | a South African policy of complete separation of the races |
| genocide | deliberate killing of an ethnic or religious group |
| Imperialism | control by one country of the political economic or cultural life of another country or region |
| Pan-Africanism | nationalist movement that began in the early 1900's and called for the unifying of all of Africa |
| Great Rift Valley | the 4,000 mile split in the eastern section of th African continent |
| escarpment | steep cliffs dividing the plateau from the coastal plain |
| Kilimanjaro | Highest volcanic peak on Africa |
| Bushman | primitive group of people who live in the Kalahari Desert and speak the "Click" language |
| Sahel | The area in Africa in danger of becoming desert land |
| "Dark Continent" | what Europeans called Africa because it was unknown to them |
| Tsetse fly | insect in the tropical rainforest causes sleeping sickness |
| Mosquito | Insect in the tropical rainforest that carries Malaria |
