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