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