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