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