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