| A | B |
|---|
| Sahara | largest desert in the world |
| Nile | longest river in the world |
| Mediterranean Sea | separates Africa from Europe |
| Pharaohs | buried in pyramids in Egypt |
| Hieroglyphs | pictures and symbols used by Egyptians |
| Suez | canal made in Egypt |
| Cairo | capital of Egypt |
| Dictator | someone who rules a country with complete power |
| Oil | most important resource in Libya and Algeria |
| Malaria | a disease spread by mosquitoes |
| Griots | storytellers who pass on the oral histories of their tribes or peoples |
| Mount Kilimanjaro | Africa’s tallest mountain |
| Lake Victoria | Africa’s largest lake |
| Serengeti | grasslands region in eastern Africa |
| Olduvai Gorge | area in Tanzania where archaeologists discovered the skeleton of an Authralopithecus |
| Droughts | periods of time when little rain falls |
| Dialect | a variation of a language |
| Civil war | a war between two or more groups within a country |
| Enclave | a country surrounded or almost surrounded by another country |
| Madagascar | world’s fourth-largest island |
| Veld | open grassland area that contains lions, leopards, elephants, rhinoceroses, and other animals |
| Drakensberg Mountains | mountains in southern Africa |
| Namib Desert | desert along the Atlantic Ocean and the Kalahari Desert |
| Apartheid | policy of separation of people in South Africa |
