Chapter 5

Question 0

Census

Answer 0

A count of the people in a country

Question 1

Multiethnic

Answer 1

Containing many ethnic groups

Question 2

Lagos

Answer 2

Peaceful center of trade today, but used to be the center of slave trade

Question 3

Abuja

Answer 3

Capital of Nigeria

Question 4

Kano

Answer 4

The oldest city in west Africa

Question 5

Sovereignty

Answer 5

Political independence

Question 6

Coup

Answer 6

The takeover of a government, often with military force

Question 7

Kwame Nkrumah

Answer 7

Leader of Ghana from 1951 to 1966

Question 8

Jerry Rawlings

Answer 8

The AfricanUnion envoy to Somalia

Question 9

Desertification

Answer 9

The changing of fertile land to land that is to dry for crops

Question 10

Drought

Answer 10

When it does not rain of a long period of time

Question 11

Erode

Answer 11

To wear away slowly

Question 12

Tombouctou

Answer 12

City in Mali near the Niger River

Question 13

Sahara

Answer 13

Largest dessert in the world, covers almost all of North Africa

Question 14

Sahel

Answer 14

The region in west and central Africa that forms a changing climate zone between the dry Sahara to the North and humid Savannas to the south