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World Cultures Africa South Of The Sahara
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A triangular section of land formed by sand and silt carried downriver
Desertification
Sanitation
Delta
Escarpments
2. Disposal of waste products
Sanitation
E-Commerce
Apartheid
Clans
3. Small-scale agriculture that provides primarily for the needs of a family or village
Clans
Subsistence Farming
Nuclear Family
Rift Valley
4. Tropical grasslands with scattered trees
Lake Tanganyika
Clans
Apartheid
Savanna
5. Large groups of people descended from an early common ancestor
Nuclear Family
Sanitation
Subsistence Farming
Clans
6. Voting rights for all adult citizens
Rift Valley
Coup d'etat
Shifting Cultivation
Universal Suffrage
7. Agriculture conducted at permanent settlements
Carrying Capacity
Sedentary Farming
Leach
Nuclear Family
8. One of the deepest and longest freshwater lakes in the world
Lake Tanganyika
Desertification
Savanna
Service Centers
9. A land-management technique that helps protect farmland
Conservation Farming
Poaching
Faults
Cataracts
10. Separation of the races
Cash Crops
Lake Victoria
Faults
Apartheid
11. Passage where freshwater meets seawater
Estuary
Delta
atriarchal
Serengeti Plain
12. The practice of passing down stories from generation to generation by word of mouth
Urbanization
Sahel
Lingua Franca
Oral Tradition
13. A triangular section of land formed by sand and silt carried downriver
Delta
Service Centers
Sanitation
Commercial Farming
14. Living areas
Cataracts
Habitats
Poaching
Sedentary Farming
15. Small-scale agriculture that provides primarily for the needs of a family or village
Subsistence Farming
Cash Crops
South Africa
Poaching
16. Disappearance from the Earth
Shifting Cultivation
Lake Tanganyika
Apartheid
Extinction
17. Farming that produces crops on a large scale
Pidgin
Faults
Commercial Farming
Lake Tanganyika
18. Convenient business locations for rural dwellers who travel there by foot - bus - or boat
Service Centers
Leach
Harmattan
Great Rift Valley
19. The number of people an area of land can support on a sustained basis
Sahel
Carrying Capacity
Service Centers
Shifting Cultivation
20. The number of people an area of land can support on a sustained basis
Lake Tanganyika
Urbanization
Nuclear Family
Carrying Capacity
21. Family structure made up of husband - wife - and children
Nuclear Family
Conservation Farming
Lake Tanganyika
Sanitation
22. Hot - dry air
Lake Tanganyika
Harmattan
Sahel
Urbanization
23. Headed by a male family member
Rift Valley
atriarchal
Savanna
Cash Crops
24. Disposal of waste products
Urbanization
E-Commerce
Sanitation
Cataracts
25. Living areas
Habitats
Lingua Franca
Nuclear Family
Pidgin
26. A large depression in the Earth's surface formed by shifting tectonic plates
Sedentary Farming
Leach
Ecotourism
Rift Valley
27. Selling and buying on the Internet
Cataracts
E-Commerce
Domesticated
Coup d'etat
28. Waterfalls
Cataracts
Serengeti Plain
Ecotourism
Leach
29. Illegal hunting
Sedentary Farming
Sedentary Farming
South Africa
Poaching
30. The largest lake in Africa
Lake Victoria
Great Rift Valley
Desertification
Cataracts
31. Shore or edge in Arabic
Lake Tanganyika
E-Commerce
Harmattan
Sahel
32. Farming that produces crops on a large scale
Lingua Franca
Commercial Farming
atriarchal
Universal Suffrage
33. Fractures in the Earth's crust
Cash Crops
Desertification
Urbanization
Faults
34. Tourism based on concern for the environment
Ecotourism
Commercial Farming
Faults
Serengeti Plain
35. Convenient business locations for rural dwellers who travel there by foot - bus - or boat
atriarchal
Carrying Capacity
Service Centers
Carrying Capacity
36. Movement of people from rural areas to cities
Oral Tradition
Urbanization
Lake Victoria
E-Commerce
37. Illegal hunting
Carrying Capacity
Sanitation
Apartheid
Poaching
38. Common language
Lake Victoria
Extinction
Lingua Franca
Rift Valley
39. The world's largest producer of gold (country)
Shifting Cultivation
South Africa
atriarchal
Clans
40. The practice of passing down stories from generation to generation by word of mouth
Savanna
Oral Tradition
Cash Crops
Extinction
41. A simplified speech used among people who speak different languages
Faults
Domesticated
Great Rift Valley
Pidgin
42. Tamed
Extinction
Urbanization
Domesticated
Oral Tradition
43. Headed by a male family member
atriarchal
E-Commerce
Subsistence Farming
Domesticated
44. Separation of the races
Faults
Apartheid
Extinction
Subsistence Farming
45. Dissolve and carry away
Harmattan
Service Centers
Leach
atriarchal
46. An overthrow of the government
47. Family structure made up of husband - wife - and children
Leach
Harmattan
South Africa
Nuclear Family
48. An overthrow of the government
49. The largest lake in Africa
Universal Suffrage
Shifting Cultivation
Lake Victoria
Delta
50. Fractures in the Earth's crust
Faults
Rift Valley
atriarchal
Commercial Farming