3.  Africa is known as the _________ continent,
because most of Africa is at least 1000 ft.
above sea level.

4.  The Plateau Continent

5.  South Africa’s policy of complete separation
of races is better known as ________.

6.  Apartheid

7.  Starting in the 1800’s, many European
countries came in took over most of Africa
politically and economically. This is better
known as _____.

8.  Colonialism or Imperialism

10.  The most famous waterfalls in Africa,
_______________, is considered one of the
Seven Natural Wonders of the World and
during its rainy season, it becomes the largest
waterfall in the world (volume).

11.  Victoria Falls

12.  Most all North African countries relate more
closely to the Middle East culturally, mainly
because of their proximity and that they
share ______.

13.  Islamic faith or religion

14.  AIDS has become a ___________ in Africa, an
uncontrollable outbreak of a disease, affecting a
large population over a wide geographic area. In
fact, 26 million of 40 million people effected
with AIDS worldwide live in Africa.

15.  Pandemic

17.  Who am I?
 Fought against apartheid in South Africa, was
imprisoned for nearly 30 years, was released,
won the Nobel Peace Prize and was elected
president of South Africa in 1994. I have been
compared to other freedom fighters such as
Martin Luther King, Jr.

18.  Nelson Mandela

19.  Africa has the best ________ or
grasslands in the world and is ideal for
grazing animals like wildebeests, gazelles,
zebras as well as predators like lions,
cheetahs and hyenas. In fact, the
Serengeti is the last place on earth that
you can observe large animal migrations.

20.  Savannahs

21.  Many African country’s suffer economically
because they rely too much on “________”.
Many economists are encouraging them to
diversify and create variety.

22.  “one-commodity”

24. One of the oldest civilizations in the world,
the Ancient Egyptians’ society arose along the
4,100 mile long _______.

25.  Nile River

26.  Many of the kingdoms of Western Africa were
wealthy in gold and it was said that they would
trade a pound of gold for what other necessary
commodity?

27.  They would
trade a pound
of gold for a
pound of salt.

28.  Due to migrations over thousands of years,
many African peoples speak a variety
languages deriving from a single, common
language. That language was known as
_____.

29.  Bantu

31.  Up until the early 1800’s, no one could
understand hieroglyphics until the discovery
of the __________.

32.  Rosetta Stone

33.  Instructed to be built by King Lalibela, what
was peculiar or unique about some churches
in Ethiopia?

34.  Built into solid rock,
underground or into
the side of a mountain

35.  Porcelain found in the Kingdom of Greater
Zimbabwe suggests that the extent of the
East African trade network was said to have
reached as far as ______!

36.  China