Africa Vocabulary

3. Conflicts fought over water.
4. This major landform is located in Northwest Africa.
6. This country has three capitals.
11. A spring of fresh water coming from the ground.
12. The largest desert in the world
13. A desert expands into areas that had been farmed previously.
15. This country's capital is Abuja.
16. The longest river in the world.
17. The Congo Basin is a _____.
19. The competition between European countries to gain territory and colonies in Africa.
21. This man was South Africa's first black president.
24. This country's capital is Nairobi.
26. A ____ group shares a belief system in a god or gods, with a specific set of rituals and literature.
28. Wars between citizens of the same country.
29. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

1. Process in which a country controls another country
2. Grassland region.
5. The largest lake in Africa.
7. Destruction of trees and other vegetation.
8. A _____ group share the same cultural ideas and beleifs that have been part of their community for generations.
9. This is the tallest mountain in Africa.
10. This was created after tectonic plates shifted and includes many trenches and volcanos.
14. Chemicals or natural substances added to soil to increase its fertility.
18. Its goals was for people of African dedcent around the world to think of Africa as a homeland.
20. Areas under control of another country.
22. This ethnic group means "one who lives on the coast".
23. This group of people believe Unkulunkulu created all wild animals, nature, and the sun/moon.
25. This group of people's traditional beliefs are centered around a supreme god, or Nayme.
27. An land region that means "border" or "margin".