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