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