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