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