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