Home > 28. Africa Web Quest
Be sure to write down your answers on binder paper. Please do NOT print in the lab.
Before you start to address the questions about Africa, please answer a few questions about the 1st semester of this class:
1) What is your favorite activity in Freshman Social Studies?
2) Are the tests too hard, too easy - or about right?
3) Do you like doing maps?
4) Is the grading policy fair in this class? If answering no - please explain:
5) What is your least favorite activity in Freshman Social Studies?
6) Do you like PowerPoints for notes - or would you prefer old-fashioned lecturing?
7) Would you recommend this class to an incoming 8th grader?
Now let's answer some questions about Africa:
8) Find a country in Africa with a GDP per capita below $5,000 per year (remember how to use infoplease.com?). Write down the name of the country and the GDP per capita:
9) Write down the name of 2 (TWO) European powers that colonized parts of Africa:
10) Based on today's notes do you think colonization was a good thing for Africa?
11) We all know the Nile is the longest river in Africa. Can you find the 2nd longest river?
12) What large lake in Africa is named after a British Queen?
13) What was the Berlin Conference and what does it have to do with colinization?
14) What is the dominant religion of many of the countries in northern Africa? (Hint: It's the same as the Middle East)
15) Who was Nelson Mandela and why was he important in South Africa?
16) What country in Africa is the largest in square miles? (see your book - or look at a map)
17) Do you want to win one Olson Dollar? be the first person to tell me your answer to #14 before the tardy bell rings.
Author:
Patrick Olson
Last modified:
4/30/2020 5:05 PM (EDT)