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