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