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