Words related to the culture and geography of Africa
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| Great Rift Valley | show 🗑
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| faults | show 🗑
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| Lake Tanganyika | show 🗑
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| show | steep, often jagged cliffs
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| cataracts | show 🗑
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| Ruwenzori Mountains | show 🗑
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| show | These mountains rise to more than 11,000 ft. in South Africa and Lesotho.
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| show | the largest lake in Africa
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| Desertification | show 🗑
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| show | it means great river
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| delta | show 🗑
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| show | a river in south-central Africa also meets the ocean in a delta.
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| show | the Zambezi River at this point of its journey plummets a sheer 355 feet.
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| Congo River | show 🗑
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| show | a passage wehre freshwaters meets seawater
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| Desertification | show 🗑
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| show | where heavy rains dissolve and carry away nutrients from the soil.
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| savanna | show 🗑
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| show | a northeast trade wind
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| Serengeti Plain | show 🗑
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| show | northern steppe of Africa between the desert and the tropical dry savanna
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| show | a desert along the Atlantic coast of Namibia
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| show | occupies eastern Namibia, most of Botswana, and part of South Africa.
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| show | the process by which fertile land gradually turns into desert
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| show | is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres
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| show | country located in West Africa
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| show | 60 percent of its population live in villages
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| Mauritania | show 🗑
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| show | At least 250 ethnic groups exist in this country.
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| show | a person who is the property and toils, or works, for another person
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| show | a simplified speech used among people who speak different languages
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