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