AFRICA WEBQUEST

 

Using http://www.time.com/time/2001/aidsinafrica/map_flash.html, answer the following questions

  1. Name the seven countries where 20% of the adults have AIDS. __________________________

 

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  1. Which country has the highest percentage of infection and what is that %?

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  1. Which country has the largest number?_________________________  What is that number?_________________________

 

 

Use http://www.ppu.org.uk/war/countries/africa/africa_index.html   Which 9  countries in Africa are still fighting wars?( Hint:  a date with a dash (-) after it means it has not ended, that it is still happening)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on Burundi and scroll down to conflict background.  What are the names of the two tribes that are fighting each other? ____________________________  _____________________________________

 

 

Using http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/Intro.asp., scroll down to Democratic Republic of Congo.   List 7 facts about that war.(Hint: Go to Does the World Care? & scroll down to a list)

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Go  back & click on Sierra Leone.  What % of the military are children?________________ Click on the link to children under 18 and list 4 specific abuses of children in this war.

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Using http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/Maps/Africa.htm fill in the following chart.  Click on each of the countries, then go to  World Fact book 2000.  Pick 2 countries of your choice

 

COUNTRY

% POP UNDER 14

HOW MANY ETHNIC GROUPS?

MAJOR LANGUAGE

UGANDA

 

 

 

 

DRC

 

 

 

 

EGYPT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go back to the top and click on the World Sites Atlas Homepage.  Find the same data for the US

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Using http://artnetweb.com/guggenheim/africa/africamap.html, list the 6 of the seven sections Africa is divided into and give one fact about each section.  Draw a piece of art for one of the sections. (Hint- scroll to the end of each section for a complete list, or to go to a new section)

 

SECTION

FACT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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