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