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