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DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
AFRICA:
LPS GEOGRAPHY STANDARD 4.2 review
LPS Standard 4.2 Objectives
4.2.1 Define weathering and erosion
4.2.2 Identify world climate regions and their characteristicsキキ Tropical (Rainforest, Grassland or Savanna)
キキ Dry/Arid (Desert)
キキ Moderate/Mid-latitude
キキ Continental (Humid, Subtropical)
キキ Polar (Tundra, Icecap)
キキ Highlands (Mountainous)
4.2.3 Define ecosystem and biome
4.2.4 Analyze how climates and ecosystems affect settlement patterns
4.2.5 Describe how humans impact ecosystems
4.2.6 Describe how weathering, erosion, and desertification shape the geography of Africa
Ecosystems ClimatesHuman
Impact on Ecosystems
Africa Just Because Terms
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600 600 600 600 600
800 800 800 800 800
1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
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Ecosystems - 200
Warm plentiful rainfall with tall trees that form a dense canopy above.
Ecosystems - 200 answer
What is Tropical Rainforest?
Ecosystems - 400
Warm all year, wet and dry seasons, grassland with
scattered trees and other plants.
Ecosystems - 400 answer
What is Tropical Grassland (acc. Savanna)?
Ecosystems - 600
Scarce rainfall, extreme temperatures, cactus,
etc.
Ecosystems - 600 answer
What is desert?
Ecosystems - 800
Always cool or cold, specialized plants like
lichens, mosses, no trees.
Ecosystems - 800 answer
What is tundra?
Ecosystems - 1000
What three things interact and combine to form an
ecosystem?
Ecosystems - 1000 answer
What are plants, animals and the physical environment in which they live?
Climates - 200
Water that falls to the earth’s surface.
Climates - 200 answer
What is precipitation?
Climates - 400
Day on which the sun is directly overhead the
earth’s equator.
Climates - 400 answer
What is an equinox?
Climates - 600
What prevents the sun’s heat from escaping back into
space too quickly?
Climates - 600 answer
What is the atmosphere?
Climates - 800
Climate regions are classified mainly on the basis of
several things. Name 2 of those things.
Climates - 800 answer
What are: elevation, seasonal temperature (acc. Temperature), precipitation, and
latitude?
Climates - 1000
The rotation of the earth causes winds to blow in
curved lines. What is this called?
Climates - 1000 answer
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Human Impact on Ecosystems - 200
The Aswan High is one of these… used to control
flooding on the Nile River.
Human Impact on Ecosystems - 200 answer
What is a dam?
Human Impact on Ecosystems - 400
Destruction of this ‘transition’ region has been caused by overgrazing of cattle and
other livestock.
Human Impact on Ecosystems - 400 answer
What is the Sahel?
Human Impact on Ecosystems - 600
The two most common economic activities in all of
sub-Saharan Africa.
Human Impact on Ecosystems - 600 answer
What are subsistence farming and nomadic herding?
Human Impact on Ecosystems - 800
Kenya has promoted economic growth by encouraging the
planting of coffee and tea. The term for products like coffee and
tea to be sold in a commercial market is _______ ________.
Human Impact on Ecosystems - 800 answer
What are cash crops?
Human Impact on Ecosystems - 1000
When sands encroach on land with vegetation,
what is the process that occurs known as?
Human Impact on Ecosystems - 1000 answer
What is desertification?
Africa Just Because - 200
Africa has hundreds of these which make communication
difficult at times.
Africa Just Because - 200 answer
What are languages?
Africa Just Because - 400
Travel from the interior of Africa to the coasts via
river can be difficult because of these.
Africa Just Because - 400 answer
What are waterfalls (acc. Cataracts)?
Africa Just Because - 600
What two European Countries held the most colonial
possessions in Africa at the beginning of the 20th
century?
Africa Just Because - 600 answer
What are France and Great Britain?
Africa Just Because - 800
The Libyan, Namib, and Kalahari are examples of
this type of biome.
Africa Just Because - 800 answer
What are deserts?
Africa Just Because - 1000
Besides drought and starvation, what has been the number one killer of Africans for the past several decades?
Africa Just Because - 1000 answer
What is AIDS?
Terms - 200
Elevated land with a flat or gently rolling surface. Most of Africa is this.
Terms - 200 answer
What is a Plateau?
Terms - 400
Another name for a major type of ecosystem.
Terms - 400 answer
What is a biome?
Terms - 600
Maple, Oak, Elm, Ash, etc. are all examples of this
kind of tree.
Terms - 600 answer
What are deciduous trees?
Terms - 800
Another word for cliff.
Terms - 800 answer
What is an escarpment?
Terms - 1000
A type of ‘scrubby’ vegetation found in dry
regions and particularly a Mediterranean climate.
Terms - 1000 answer
What is chaparral?
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The area around the Equator experiences virtually no wind. What is the name of this ‘windless’ phenomenon that historically sailors hated?
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What are the “Doldrums”?