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