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