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