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