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