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