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