| A | B |
|---|
| Ghana | Accra, capital |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Kinshasa, capital |
| Niger | Niamey, capital |
| Nigeria | Abuja, capital |
| Capte Verde | an island country |
| Gulf of Guinea | borders Togo, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | farthest south country |
| equator goes through | Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| African deadly insects | tsetse fly and the black fly |
| Savanna | a flat grassy plain in the Tropics with few trees |
| Sahel | a belt of semiarid land in Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia |
| Desertification | the process of land that produces crops changing into desert land |
| Mangroves | cover coastal delta of Nigeria |
| Experiencing desertification | Sahel |
| home of the tsetse fly | savanna |
| Most of central Africa covered by | rain forest |
| Lake Chad | large lake size of Lake Erie |
| missionary | a member of a church who travels to spread religious beliefs |
| Animist | a person who believes that things in nature contain a spirit and who worships ancestors |
| Ancestor worship | Worshiping members of one's family who lived long ago |
| coup | a sudden, usually violent overthrow of a government |
| life expectancy | the number of years an average person usually lives |
| malnutrition | 5-19% undernourished |
| famine | 20% or more undernourished |
| trade imbalance | When a country is paying more for imports than what it receives from its exports |
| Most people from west and central Africa make their living from | farmers |
| staple crop | a food that people eat most often |
| intercropping | planting different crops in the same field |
| chocolate made from | cacao grown in Africa |
| Large deposits of oil, tin and coal | Nigeria |
| once called Gold Coast | Ghana |
| trade imbalance | when a country is paying more far imports than what it receives from its exports |
| Urban Environmental problems result of | over crowding, |
