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