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