Africa Review

Question 1

Desertification means that the desert is doing what?

Accepted Answer

Expanding

Question 2

Africa is the ______ largest continent in the world.

Accepted Answer

2nd

Question 3

What contributed MOST to South Africa's development as a strong nation?

Accepted Answer

Its Location

Question 4

Africa is HUGE and Africa is _________?

Accepted Answer

Diverse

Question 5

What statement is NOT true about the Sahara Desert?

Accepted Answer

Kenya is there.

Question 6

When crops fail and there is not enough food, the poor in Africa often suffer from what?

Accepted Answer

Famine

Question 7

What ethnic group is really a large group of more than 600 tribes with many languages?

Accepted Answer

Bantu

Question 8

Why are people in the Sahara and Sahel nomadic?

Accepted Answer

Because they are constantly searching for water.

Question 9

This ethnic group is a blend of Native African people with traders from the Middle East.

Accepted Answer

Swahili

Question 10

Deforestation is a problem in which part of Africa?

Accepted Answer

Rainforest

Question 11

Civil wars are common in Africa. People who flee their country to escape war are called what?

Accepted Answer

Refugees

Question 12

When European countries fought for control of Africa, it was called what?

Accepted Answer

Scramble for Africa

Question 13

Apartheid was a problem for which African country?

Accepted Answer

South Africa

Question 14

Africa has two main water problems. What are they?

Accepted Answer

Scarcity and Pollution

Question 15

Which country is one of the most developed in Africa?

Accepted Answer

Egypt

Question 16

Africa is a what?

Accepted Answer

Continent

Question 17

A majority of countries in Africa have governments that are what?

Accepted Answer

All three

Question 18

What term means "the blending of multiple religions"?

Accepted Answer

Syncretic

Question 19

What physical feature helped people settle in Africa thousands of years ago?

Accepted Answer

The NileRiver

Question 20

If someone were lost in the Congo Rainforest, they would be lost in the middle of what?

Accepted Answer

Africa

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