Module 18 Crossword

6. is an open-air trading market that is set up once or twice a week.
11. starts in some low mountains not too far from the Atlantic Ocean.
14. is the spread of desert like conditions.
15. flows eastward toward the Indian Ocean.
19. is the belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits.
20. flat region surrounded by higher land such as mountains and plateaus.
22. is an area of tall grasses and scattered trees and shrubs.

1. stretches through northern Zambia and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2. an extreme shortage of food.
3. smaller rivers that drain the swampy Congo Basin and flow into the river as it runs toward the Atlantic.
4. includes the father, mother, children, and close relatives in one household.
5. the rise in prices that occurs when currency loses its buy-ing power
7. region as a big soup bowl with a wide rim and near the middle of the bowl.
8. is the condition of not getting enough nutrients from food.
9. Founded in the 1300s, it was located near the mouth of the Congo River.
10. regional varieties of a language.
12. a strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas.
13. is the most populous city in West Africa.
16. is a dis-ease spread by mosquitoes that causes fever and pain.
17. With a university, mosques, and more than 100 schools, the Songhai City was a cultural center.
18. This crowded city has some modern buildings, but most of the city consists of poor slums.
21. “organized by zone.”