Ch.5

Question 0

A count of all the people in a country

Answer 0

CENSUS

Question 1

Many ethnics groups live within the borders

Answer 1

MULTIETHNIC

Question 2

A center for the Europen slave trade

Answer 2

LAGOS

Question 3

Federal capital of Nigeria

Answer 3

ABUJA

Question 4

A city and the capital of ? state in northern Nigeria,a historic kingdom in Nigeria

Answer 4

KANO

Question 5

Political independence

Answer 5

SOVEREIGNTY

Question 6

The take over of a government, often done by military force

Answer 6

COUP

Question 7

Agreed to grant them SOVEREIGNTY celebrated ? down the street and chanted victory songs

Answer 7

KWAME NKRUMAH

Question 8

Led Ghana’s last COUP and then took over Ghana

Answer 8

JERRY RAWLINGS

Question 9

The changing of fertile land into land that is too dry for crops

Answer 9

DESERTIFICATION

Question 10

Along period of time or no rain

Answer 10

DROUGHT

Question 11

To wear away

Answer 11

ERODE

Question 12

City in Mali near the Niger River, in the past an important center of Islamic education and atrans-sharan caravan shop

Answer 12

TOMBOUCTOU

Question 13

Largest tropical desert in the world covers almost all of North Africa

Answer 13

SHARA

Question 14

The religion in the west and Central Africa that forms a changing climate zone between the dry SHARA to the north and humid Savannas to the south

Answer 14

SAHEL