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