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