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