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