Unit 9 Test Flashcards
Great Zimbabwe was a large ____________ built by the Shona.
stone city
____________ is the only country with three capitals.
South Africa
The largest city in Africa is ____________ in Nigeria.
Lagos
Cape Agulhas is the ____________ point in Africa.
southernmost
Match the country on the map with the name.
political map of Africa
A
Leopold II
king who established the Congo Free State as a private kingdom
Rough weather and many shipwrecks characterize the ____________ Coast.
Skeleton
Black nationalist leader who has ruled Zimbabwe for over 30 years
Robert Mugabe
The ____________ is a large, grassy swamp on the White Nile River in Sudan.
Sudd
Match the country on the map with the name.
political map of Africa
B
____________ has some of the world’s largest deposits of gold, diamonds, and copper.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Khartoum, located at the confluence of the White and Blue Nile Rivers, is the capital of ____________.
Sudan
The largest mountain chain in southern Africa is the ____________ Mountains.
Drakensberg
The ____________ Desert covers 85% of Algeria.
Sahara
This Merina ruler established Madagascar’s most powerful kingdom.
Adrianampoinimerina
The selling of human beings led to Nigeria being called the ____________.
Slave Coast
The ____________ Canal is a 400-mile waterway created from lagoons connected by man-made waterways.
Pangalanes
Nelson Mandela
South Africa’s first Black president who endured 27 years in prison
Abuja became the capital of ____________ in 1991.
Nigeria
Match the country on the map with the name.
political map of Africa
D
Cecil Rhodes
Englishman who encouraged colonization of Zimbabwe as part of his vision to build a railroad from South Africa to Cairo
Match the country on the map with the name.
political map of Africa
C
Great Britain’s ____________ Coast colony became the modern country of Ghana.
Gold
The world’s largest man-made lake is Lake ____________ in Ghana.
Volta
