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