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1. Towers on the mosque that are used for the call to prayer

2. A farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land
Image: slash and burn agriculture

3. A river in Central and Southern Africa that flows into the Indian Ocean.
Image: Zambezi River

4. an economic activity that transforms raw materials into usable products, adding value in the process. (i.e. Manufacturing)
Image: secondary activity

5. The killing of more than 1,000,000 ethnic Tutsis by rival Hutu militias in Rwanda in 1994.
Image: Rwandan Genocide

6. A cascade of water falling from a height, formed when a river or stream flows over a cliff or steep incline. A waterfall.
Image: cateract

7. Longest river in the world, located in Egypt.

8. A river in Central Africa that flows into the Atlantic Ocean
Image: Congo River

9. An economic activity that directly extracts or harvests resources from the earth. (i.e. Farming, Mining, Logging, Fishing, Herding)
Image: primary activity

10. A desert in Namibia extending along the coast between the high plateau and the Atlantic Ocean
Image: Namib Desert

11. A factor that draws or attracts people to another location
Image: pull factors

12. Semi Arid Desert in Southern Africa.
Image: Kalihari Desert

13. The world's largest desert in northern Africa
Image: Sahara Desert

14. The largest lake in Africa; the source of the Nile River
Image: Lake Victoria

15. What are these called?
Image: Ceremonial mask

16. an association of British colonies
Image: Commonwealth of Nations

17. Mali. Founded c. 1200 C.E.; rebuilt 1906-1907. Adobe.
Image: The great Mosque of Djenne

18. were storytellers, most societies did not have a written language, served as historians who kept the culture's history alive
Image: Griots

19. Stone hewn church in Ethiopia, nearly 900 years old.
Image: Church of Lalibela

20. The gradual transformation of habitable land into desert
Image: Desertification

21. An open tropical grassland with scattered trees
Image: Savannah

22. Islamic house of worship

23. farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced
Image: subsistence farming

24. raising a large amount of a 'cash crop' for local sale or export
Image: plantation agriculture

25. the largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world
Image: Lake Victoria

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