Africa Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. The process of land returning to desert
  2. 7. Slash-and-burn farming has resulted in large-scale ___________
  3. 8. This is the illegal hunting of animals
  4. 9. The Mali Empire's most famous king
  5. 10. This is the longest river in Africa
  6. 11. Extreme shortage of food
Down
  1. 1. ___________ are crops that people grow to sell and live off the income they earn.
  2. 2. Bambuti are ___________ who survive on what the lush tropical forests provide for them.
  3. 4. The wealthiest Songhai trading city
  4. 5. A very valuable resource that used to preserve food before refrigerators
  5. 6. This occurs when animals graze so much from the land that the grasses die off permanently.
  6. 12. ___________ accounts for 70 percent of employment in Sub-Saharan Africa.