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