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Lesson 47: (Cont.)
Natural Resources and Economy
of Western Africa
ACTIVITY 2:
Use the chart of Western Africa products to answer the questions on this page. Look for
boldfaced
words in your chart as clues of a country’smajor cash crops, exports, and industries
1. Phosphatesmake up nearly one half of this small country’s exports.
The name of the country is:
2.What primary industry providesmostWest Africans a living?
3.Name three countries inwhich tourism is becoming an important part of the economy.
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and
4.Most peanuts grown inWestern Africa are used tomake peanut oil for cooking and peanut butter.
Name three countries that rely on peanuts as amajor cash crop.
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and
5.What word in the list below best describes the economies
of the countries inWesternAfrica?
a. diversified
b.wealthy c. poor
d. industrialized
6. This country relies heavily on itsmineral reserves of bauxite,
themetal orewhich is used in the production of aluminum.
7. This country’smajor cash crops are cocoa, coffee, and
palm kernels. Palm kernels are taken from the fruit of a
palm tree and are processed into palm oil.
8.Rubber is produced from sticky sap known as latexwhich
is drawn from rubber trees.What country has large
American owned plantations of this elasticmaterial?
9. IvoryCoast produces nearly a third of theworld’s cocoa and is the largest producer of coffee in
Africa.Name at least four other countries that produce coffee or cocoa as cash crops.
and
and
10.Nigeria isWesternAfrica’s leading producer of petroleum.
Name four other countrieswith oil and natural gas reserves.
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and
Western Africa
