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20-1 Kenya

DIRECTIONS: Filling in the Blanks Reading the section and completing the summary below will help you learn more about the country of Kenya. Use your textbook to fill in the blanks. Eastern Kenya has white beaches on the (1) (2) Ocean. Offshore is a reef. Inland are vast

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About 3,000 years ago, people from other parts of (16) lived by farming and (17) arrived and
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(3) with low vegetation and many animals. In the southwest are highlands with (4) , plateaus, and valleys. In this region of grasslands and forests (5) percent of Kenyas people live. The Great (6) Valley divides the

In the A.D. 700s, (18) set up coastal trading settlements. The mix of Arabs and Africans created a new language called (19) . In the late 1800s,

the (20) Kenya. In 1963 Kenya became

highlands. Mount (7) rises in the east, while the west has many (8) .

(21) . Today, the country is working hard to provide food and (22) population. for its growing

Located on the (9) , Kenya has tropical or steppe climates. The coast is hot and humid enough for small rain (10) (11) . The plains have a climate.

The (23) is the largest of about 40 ethnic groups. African languages and (24) are spoken. 65 percent of Kenyans are (25) . 75 percent live in rural villages. The rest live in cities, such as the capital city of (26) the port of (27) . or

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Kenyas chief economic activity is (12) . Half the

farmers practice (13) farming, while half grow cash crops such as (14) Tourismwith trips called (15) and coffee.

adds to the economy.

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20-2 Tanzania

DIRECTIONS: Outlining Reading the section and completing the outline below will help you learn more about the country of Tanzania. Use your textbook to fill in the blanks. I. Tanzaniasouth of below Equator A. Small coral Ocean; largest is B. on coast C. Inlandrising elevation to with huge grasslands D. North famous one is E. West Valley F. WestAfricas deepest lake:
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, tobacco,

C. Government farms grow tea, in Indian D. Largest producer of and palm trees and, on Zanzibar, III. Tanzanias people120 different African groups A. People speak own ethnic languages and

; most

B. Unified because no one ethnic group controls the IV. Historyremains of earliest settlements A. A.D. 500s, peoples settled -speaking

; largest lake:

G. National parks, such as National Park for wildlife II. Economy A. Based on , raising , subsistence farming B. Rich in gold and such as

B.

set up trading centers in about A.D. 1100s

C. Before independence, ruled by Portugal,

, and

Great Britain

D. Planning to build a new capital at

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20-3 Inland East Africa

DIRECTIONS: Answering Questions Reading the section and completing the questions below will help you learn more about the inland East African countries of Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi. Use your textbook to write answers to the questions. 1. Describe the landscape of Uganda.

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6. Describe the landforms and climates of Rwanda and Burundi.

2. Describe Ugandas climate. 7. What economic activities are important in Rwanda and Burundi?

3. Where does agriculture take place and what crops are grown in Uganda? 8. What factors make economic development difficult for Rwanda and Burundi?
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4. Where do most of Ugandas people live? 9. How is the population distributed in Rwanda and Burundi?

5. What caused hardships in Uganda in the 1980s?

10. What are the two main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi and how has their presence affected the countries?

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20-4 The Hor n of Africa

DIRECTIONS: Reading for Accuracy Reading the section and completing the activity below will help you learn more about the countries of the Horn of Africa. Use your textbook to decide is a statement is true or false. Write T or F, and rewrite each false statement correctly. 1. Sudan, Africas largest country, is mostly tropical rain forests and swamps with fertile land where two branches of the Nile meet.

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6. Ethiopia is so old it sent pharaohs to Egypt.

2. Sudan is the worlds leading producer of corn, grown along the Nile.

7. Eritrea, the newest African country, won its independence from the oldest African country, Sudan.

3. People in northern Sudan are mostly Muslim Arabs, while in the south, people are from different African ethnic groups and practice traditional religions or Christianity.
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8. Eritrea lies on the Red Sea with a coastal plain that is one of the hottest and wettest in Africa.

9. Somalia, with its hot, dry, grassy plains, has many farmers. 4. Ethiopia, cut by the Great Rift Valley, is mostly lowlands.

10. Almost all of Djiboutis income comes from farming. 5. Ethiopias farmers have a mild climate and fertile soil but sometimes have excessive rains.

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