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