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| How many people are living in this area? |
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| What is the yearly growth rate? |
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| Sub Saharah Africa is the world's richest deposits of what |
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| ?Oil, gold, platinum, copper, and other minerals |
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| What is the tallest mountain, at 19,324 feet high |
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| What is the second tallest mountain? at 17,057 feet high |
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| What kind of climate is in the area? |
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| Tropical climate, average temp of about 64 degrees |
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| Most of the rain comes from what? |
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| Inter-tropical convergence zone |
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| A band of atmospheric currents that circle the globe at the equator |
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| What makes significant contributions to global climate change and is also a main contributor to CO2 emissions |
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| Trees absorb CO2 as they photosynthesize, when trees are burned they release CO2 back into the atmosphere, this is called what |
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| How many out of 8 countries with the highest rates of deforestation are African |
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| What is the raising of economically useful trees, leading contributor to taking pressure off forests for fuel wood and construction material |
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| What are the leading causes of deforestation |
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| farmland, fuel wood, and logging |
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| What provides food for only the farmers family and the surplus is sold |
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| What is the raising of a wide array of crops and a few animals as livestock |
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| Crops grown to be sold is |
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| Africans previously used what (forests are cleared and cultivated for just 3 years and left to regrow) |
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| Countries of Mali and Niger want to damn what river for irrigation projects to help feed 26 mill people in 2 countries |
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| Also known as herding, practiced by millions of Africans, but it is also leading to environmental issuessm |
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| The process by which arid conditions spread to areas that were previously moist |
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| What is the 200 to 400 mile wide band of arid grassland along the southern edge of the Sahara, and has undergone the most dramatic changes due to desertification |
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| What are some reasons for desertification |
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| Low amount of rainfall, combined with fire and plowing |
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| If climate change diminishes crops, farmers become more dependent on what as a source of income |
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| What is helping combat poaching by creating jobs and money based on the survival of the natural wildlife |
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| What was Africa called by European slave traders and colonizers |
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| Where did the first human species evolve |
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| Eastern Africa (Ethiopian Kenya Uganda) |
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| How long ago did People began cultivation |
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| What were the names given stretches of coast |
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| Gold Coast, Ivory Coast, Pepper Coast, Slave Coast |
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| When did the Portuguese create more brutal widespread slave trade |
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| What fueled Europe's Industrial Revolution |
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| How many slaves died at sea |
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| 90% of slaves that arrived went to plantations where |
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| South America and the Caribbean |
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| Number of current slaves is estimated at |
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| from several million to 10 million |
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| What country was the first to gain their independence |
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| Most early colonial administrations evolved out of what |
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| private resource extracting corporations |
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| What country is the only one with a strong manufacturing base, smart investments in manufacturing industries that served the mining industry |
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| Africa is what percentage urban |
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| People in Africa view children as what |
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| economic advantage and a spiritual link |
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| What is the major factor behind sub-saharan cities' growth |
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| In 1960 only 1 AFrican city had more than 1 million people, how many do now |
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| The largest sub-saharan city is what |
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| Lagos Nigeria with a population of 11 to 13 million people |
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