Across
- 2. the belief that bodies of water, animals, and trees have spirits.
- 4. an extreme shortage of food
- 5. a stretch of land in Central Africa that the mineral copper can be found.
- 9. an important river in Central Africa that runs toward the Atlantic Ocean.
- 14. the rise in prices that occurs when currency loses its buying power.
- 15. regional varieties of a language
- 16. river in West Africa that flows 2,600 miles into the Gulf of Guinea
- 17. geographer's way of organizing an area by zone.
- 18. a cultural center in ancient West Africa
- 20. a semi-arid strip of land South of the Sahara Desert.
- 21. the condition of not getting enough nutrients from food.
Down
- 1. the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 3. an important kingdom in Central Africa
- 6. an open-air trading market that is set up once or twice a week.
- 7. an animal that is a short-necked relative to a giraffe
- 8. the spread of desertlike conditions
- 10. a home that includes the mother, father, children, and close relatives in one household.
- 11. an area of tall grasses and scattered trees
- 12. a disease spread by mosquitoes.
- 13. a region of Central Africa that is generally flat and surrounded by mountains.
- 19. a second river that is in the Southern part of Central Africa that flows east toward the Indian Ocean.
- 22. the most populous city in West Africa.