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