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