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