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