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29 Cards in this Set
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The ______ river flows south to north through Sudan and Egypt.
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Nile
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Africa's tallest peak is Mount __________ in Tanzania.
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Kilamanjaro
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The ______ Desert covers most of North Africa and is growing bigger every year.
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Sahara
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The ______ Mountains cross the center of Morocco in northwest Africa.
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Atlas
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The ______ canal in Egypt allows ships to pass from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea
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Suez
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Lake ________ which lies across borders of Kenya,Uganda, and Tanzania, is the world's second largest lake.
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Victoria
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Lake ______ in Ghana is the worlds largest man made lake.
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Volta
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Lake _______ in east Africa is the worlds longest lake.
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Tanganyika
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The ______ desert runs along Africa's southwest coast across the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Namib
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The ______ river basin covers a large part of the country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Congo
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Culture
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Way of life for a people group
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Coup d'état (coup)
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Sudden forcible change in government
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Dictator
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Ruler who has complete power
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Tropical
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Hot region near the Equator
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Temperate
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Neither hot nor cold climate
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Anarchy
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No government or law
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Fertile
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Able to produce much
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Ivory
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Hard, white tusk of elephant or walrus
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Navigable
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Ships can travel on it
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Tourist
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Person traveling for pleasure
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________ is Africa's most developed nation and the homely the Boer people
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South Africa
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_________ is the worlds fourth largest island and the biggest producer of natural vanilla in the world.
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Madagascar
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__________, once called Rhodesia, had a white-dominated government until 1980.
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Zimbabwe
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_______ was a Portuguese colony whose communist government stayed in power because of the help of 55,000 Cuban troops.
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Angola
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________ was a German colony conquered by a neighbor during World War II and not freed until 1990.
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Namibia
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The European nations divided Africa up among themselves at the ___________________ in 1885.
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Berlin Conference
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In 1994, South Africa elected its first _________
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Black president
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South Africa's system of separating the races and keeping the best for the whites called _____________.
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Apartheid
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The Zambezi river was explored by the famous missionary/explorer ________________________.
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Dr. David Livingstone
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