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| Four major climate zones | tropical rain forest,savanna,deserts,mediterranean |
| What percent is rain forest | 8% |
| What percent is savanna/grassland? | 50% |
| What percent is desert? | 40% |
| What percent is mediterranean? | 2% |
| Tropical rainforest locale | from West Coast to Great Rift Valley |
| climate of rainforest | hot,humid,80 degrees |
| rainfall in rainforest | 60-120 inches |
| three problems for living in rainforest | mold,disease,termites |
| climate of savanna/grassland | rainy summers,dry winters |
| climate problem with savanna | drought |
| what is desertification? | turning of semidesert land into desert |
| What causes desertification | pop. growth,drought,overgrazing,tree clearing |
| Deserts are what percent of Africa | 40% |
| largest desert in the world | Sahara |
| climate of Sahara | harsh-temp can reach 135 degrees |
| amt rainfall in Sahara | 10 years without rain/aver. 10" |
| Sahara divides Africa into what 2 regions | Arab-Middle in north/Black in Sub-Saharan |
| Kalahari desert | not as dry as Sahara |
| Namib | one of dryest places on earth/uninhabited |
| Mediterranean climate locale | Southern tip and northern coast |
| climate of Mediterranean | mild, pleasant,good farming |
| Diseases of Africa | Malaria,Sleeping sickness,river blindness,Bilharzia |
| Malaria cause | mosquitoes |
| sleeping sickness cause | tsetse fly/ frequent in Savanna |
| river blindness cause | black flies/causes blindness |
| Bilharzia cause | snails/caught in streams/rivers |
| Who is Albert Schwitzer | doctor/minister founded hospitals |
| population of Africa | 763 million |
| number of languages | 1000 languages |
| problem with African language | groups close together speak differently |
| What is swahili | Arabic and Bantu blend/found in East Africa |
| extended family | parents and children/spouses/siblings |
| advantages of extended family | pooled labor,work on projects |
| clan | trace descent to common ancestors |
| tribes | groups of tribes |
| consensus | a common agreement/good of community |
| subsistence farming | produce enough for needs/little surplus |
| Who owns the land in Africa | tribe owns land/not individual |
| slash/burn cultivation | cut down trees/burn landscape |
