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