Warm Up – Day 3 – 3/25/2013

• New seating chart on the board – find your seat.• Last grading period starts today! Start strong…finish

strong! You are almost Sophomores!!!!!• HW Quiz and Open Notes Test over Europe and

Africa next class period!!!!

• Warm Up: While watching CNN student news, choose a news story to summarize and decide which category of the EESP chart it fits.

If you were absent…

• You missed a class discussion over Africa.• Take a look at the slides…in the lines next to

each slide write your thoughts.• Put these notes-sheets in your notes.• See Mrs. Brown if you have any questions.• On the map attached…label each of the

different regions of Africa.

Africa• FOCUS ON WHAT YOU KNOW!

• What do you already know about Africa?• 5 things.

North Africa – What do you know?

Sahara Desert – What do you know?

North Africa

• Mountain Ranges (Atlas Mountains, Ahaggar Mountains)

• Sahara desert (world’s largest)

• Sahel region

West Africa – What do you know?

Lagos, Nigeria

West Africa

• Grasslands

• Most populated

East Africa – what do you know?

Mt. Kilimanjaro:Snow on the Equator?

The African Savannah:13 million sq. mi.

East Africa

• Mountainous

• Plateaus

• (Ethiopian Plateau)

• Grasslands

• Serengeti Plain

• Hills

South Africa – what do you know?

South Africa

• Namib & Kalahari Deserts

• Drakensberg Mountain Range

Namib Desert

Kalahari Desert

Central Africa – what do you know?

Central Africa

• Equator

• Rain forests

African Rain Forest – Outline on your map

# Annual rainfall of up to 17 ft.# Rapid decomposition (very humid).# 15% of the land surface of Africa.

The Congo Rainforest

Desertification

• Desertification – The spreading of a desert region

• The region of Sahel is

most affected by the spreading desert.

Desertification

The Sahel

What does this picture show us?Are these physical or human characteristics?

Turn to a partner and discuss.

Let’s look at some Mock STAAR questions on Africa

• The overgrazing of pasture in arid climates has caused which problem?

• A. Global Warming• B. Soil loss• C. Desertification• D. Mudslides

• The overgrazing of pasture in arid climates has caused which problem?

• A. Global Warming• B. Soil loss• C. Desertification• D. Mudslides

• The civil war in Rwanda is most closely an example of –

• A. A religious conflict• B. An ethnic conflict• C. A conflict over technology• D. A conflict over natural resources

Think back to when we talked about genocide…

• The next slide is from the powerpoint we used during that unit. Discuss which of the answer choices is the best after looking at the slide

Rwanda

• Who – Hutus and the Tutsis (ethnic groups)• What – Tutsis were being slaughtered by the

Hutus.• Where – Rwanda (central Africa)• When – 1994• Why – Back during Belgian colonization of central

Africa the Tutsis were favored by the Belgian government. Once the Belgians left, the Hutus took their revenge.

• The civil war in Rwanda is most closely an example of –

• A. A religious conflict• B. An ethnic conflict• C. A conflict over technology• D. A conflict over natural resources

• The frequent changes in the political organization of Africa from the early sixteenth to the late nineteenth century reflected –

• A. Attempts by European countries to establish colonies and gain control of certain regions

• B. An economic shift away from primarily agrarian activities toward primarily industrial ones

• C. The replacement of European trading partners with Asian ones

• D. Efforts by territories to unite against potential colonizers

• Which is the only answer choice we have discussed this year?

• The frequent changes in the political organization of Africa from the early sixteenth to the late nineteenth century reflected –

• A. Attempts by European countries to establish colonies and gain control of certain regions

• B. An economic shift away from primarily agrarian activities toward primarily industrial ones

• C. The replacement of European trading partners with Asian ones

• D. Efforts by territories to unite against potential colonizers

• The majority of African states entered the United Nations after 1960 because –

• A. Political differences with the U.S. kept them from joining before 1960

• B. The majority of the states didn’t become independent until the 1960s

• C. They chose to create the African United Nations before joining the United Nations

• D. The United Nations rejected all applications from African states before 1960

• Use what we just talked about on the last question to discuss the most reasonable answer with a partner

• The majority of African states entered the United Nations after 1960 because –

• A. Political differences with the U.S. kept them from joining before 1960

• B. The majority of the states didn’t become independent until the 1960s

• C. They chose to create the African United Nations before joining the United Nations

• D. The United Nations rejected all applications from African states before 1960

• The deserts of the Middle East and North Africa are characterized by populations that –

• A. Move to find resources that are thinly dispersed across a vast area

• B. Work primarily in small cottage industries• C. Are nonviolent and practice ancient

polytheistic religions• D. Organize their society around a matriarch

• The deserts of the Middle East and North Africa are characterized by populations that –

• A. Move to find resources that are thinly dispersed across a vast area

• B. Work primarily in small cottage industries• C. Are nonviolent and practice ancient

polytheistic religions• D. Organize their society around a matriarch

• A geographer could place North Africa and Indonesia in the same category because most of the people living in these regions –

• A. Practice nomadic hunting• B. Rely on the monsoon season• C. Elect their own rulers• D. Adhere to the same religion

World Agriculture Regions

Fig. 10-5a: Locations of the major types of subsistence and commercial agriculture.

• A geographer could place North Africa and Indonesia in the same category because most of the people living in these regions –

• A. Practice nomadic hunting• B. Rely on the monsoon season• C. Elect their own rulers• D. Adhere to the same religion