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