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