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