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