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