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