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Southern Africa
Lesson 51:
Natural Resources and Economy
of Southern Africa
ACTIVITY 1:
Use the
Industry Organizer
to answer the questions about the natural resources and economy of
SouthernAfrica on the next page. Look for
boldfaced
words in your organizer as clues of a country’s
major cash crops, exports, and industries.
Industry Organizer for SouthernAfrica
Agriculture
Minerals
ManufacturingServices
Comoros
subsistence farming, vanilla,
Food processing
cloves
tourism
Madagascar coffee, cloves, vanilla,
sisal,
chromite, graphite
textiles, soap, sugar,
sugar cane
sisal rope, soap
Mauritius sugar cane
, tea, bananas,
tourism
, textiles, clothing,
tobacco, fishing
plastics, electronics
Mozambique cashews, cotton, copra, sugar
Coal
, limestone,
food processing,
cane, citrus fruits, seafood
salt, iron ore
laborers toSouthAfrica
Malawi
subsistence farming,
tobacco,
food processing, small
sugar cane, tea
, fishing, timber
consumer products
Zambia
subsistence farming, tobacco,
copper, cobalt,
Copper manufacturing,
sugar cane, cotton, peanuts,
zinc, lead, coal
petroleum refining, tires,
timber, fishing
textiles, fertilizers
Angola
coffee, sugar cane, oil palm
petroleum, natural gas
petroleum processing,
cotton, timber, fishing
diamonds,
iron ore
steel
Namibia
subsistence herding/farming,
copper, diamonds, tin,
copper/lead
fishing
uranium, salt
manufacturing
Botswana
subsistence farming,
cattle
,
diamonds, copper,
gold
peanuts, sunflower seeds
uranium,
nickel
, coal, salt
Zimbabwe
subsistence farming,
gold,
coal, metal ores
food processing, textiles,
plantation farms-tobacco,
light machinery
cotton, sugar cane,
tea, cattle
Swaziland
subsistence farming, cattle,
coa
l, iron ore
Laborers toSouthAfrica
sugar cane, citrus fruits
, timber,
woodpulp, tobacco
Lesotho
subsistence farming, wool,
diamonds
hydroelectric energy,
mohair wool,
water toSouthAfrica
SouthAfrica citrus fruits, apples, grapes
,
gold, diamonds,
coal
iron/steel, aluminum,
sugar cane
, cotton, tobacco,
platinum, uranium,
wine, tourism,
beverages
fishing, timber
ironore, bauxite
chemicals, textiles,
machinery, electronics
