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Question 1

Which is an example of an ethnic group?

Accepted Answer

people who share similar ancestry or culture

Question 2

What letter indicates Lake Victoria?

Accepted Answer

I

Question 3

South Africa is indicated by what letter?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 4

Apartheid is

Accepted Answer

legal seperation of races

Question 5

What letter indicates the Atlas Mountains on the map?

Accepted Answer

B

Question 6

Based on the chart, which statement is MOST LIKELY true in regards to standard of living

Accepted Answer

it is higher in Kenya and South Africa

Question 7

What letter indicates the Rainforest areas of Africa?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 8

This religion is based on the teachings of Muhammed

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 9

What letter indicates the Sahel Region?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 10

Which letter indicates Sudan on the map?

Accepted Answer

G

Question 11

Which African river near the equator is located in the tropical rainforest?

Accepted Answer

Congo

Question 12

What religion did the Arabs bring with them to Africa?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 13

What is desertification?

Accepted Answer

spread of desert area

Question 14

Where are the majority of the Swahili found?

Accepted Answer

East Africa

Question 15

What is the result of deforestation?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 16

What desert covers most of northern Africa?

Accepted Answer

Sahara

Question 17

What letter indicates the Nile River

Accepted Answer

L

Question 18

What letter indicates the Sahara desert?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 19

What letter indicates Lake Tanganyika?

Accepted Answer

J

Question 20

What language is the Quran written in?

Accepted Answer

Arabic

Question 21

What desert is located in Southern Africa?

Accepted Answer

Kalahari

Question 22

What letter indicates the Kalahari desert on the map?

Accepted Answer

H

Question 23

Why are literacy rates for girls lower than those for boys in both Kenya and Sudan?

Accepted Answer

traditions say that girls should marry not be educated

Question 24

What statement is true regarding the Arab, Ashanti, Bantu, and Swahili ethnic groups in Africa

Accepted Answer

There is religious diversity within and among groups

Question 25

What letter indicates the Atlantic Ocean on the map?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 26

Located in Africa, what is the longest lake in the world?

Accepted Answer

Lake Tanganyika

Question 27

What letter indicates Kenya on the map?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 28

What letter indicates the Congo river?

Accepted Answer

K

Question 29

Which is a factor in the destruction of the African rainforest?

Accepted Answer

rapidly growing population

Question 30

In which country do most Ashanti live?

Accepted Answer

Ghana

Question 31

What is a major use of the Congo River

Accepted Answer

irrigation of farmland

Question 32

Which country on the chart has the lowest literacy rate?

Accepted Answer

Sudan

Question 33

Located in Africa, what is the world's longest river?

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 34

What mountain range is lcoated in Northern Africa?

Accepted Answer

Atlas

Question 35

Which river is the principal river in western Africa?

Accepted Answer

Niger

Question 36

Which ethnic groups would combine traditional beliefs with practices from Christianity & Islam

Accepted Answer

Bantus

Question 37

What letter indicates the Niger river?

Accepted Answer

E

Question 38

What is a major problem facing those that depend on the Nile River for their water?

Accepted Answer

it is contaminated with human and industrial waste

Question 39

Water is typically polluted because of poor irrigation practices

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

Which letter indicates Nigeria on the map?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 41

What would MOST LIKELY happen to the standard of living in Africa if they raised literacy rates

Accepted Answer

it would increase

Question 42

What letter indicates the Savannah Region?

Accepted Answer

G

Question 43

Where are Muslims found in Africa today?

Accepted Answer

throughout Africa

Question 44

South Sudan is indicated by what letter?

Accepted Answer

D

Question 45

What is Africa's transition zone between desert and rainforest?

Accepted Answer

Sahel

Question 46

The religion of the Bantu is best described as

Accepted Answer

most practice Animism

Question 47

What East Asian religion is similar to the Bantu beliefs?

Accepted Answer

Shinto

Question 48

The Congo is indicated by what letter?

Accepted Answer

E

Question 49

Which country has the highest literacy rate according to the chart?

Accepted Answer

South Africa

Question 50

What are the main religions practiced by the Ashanti?

Accepted Answer

Islam and Christianity

Question 51

What is the largest lake in Africa?

Accepted Answer

Lake Victoria

Question 52

What type of work do the people in the Sahel do?

Accepted Answer

subsistence farming, herding, mining

Question 53

What is an example of a religious group?

Accepted Answer

Jews

Question 54

What do some people believe might lead to "water wars" in Africa in the future?

Accepted Answer

competition among countries that share a river system

Question 55

Egypt is indicated by what letter?

Accepted Answer

F

Question 56

What African landform has rolling grassland and scattered trees?

Accepted Answer

Savannah

Question 57

Women have a higher literace rate in Kenya than in Sudan. This is Most Likely because

Accepted Answer

Kenya invest more in education for girls

Question 58

Which environmental concern is linked to people clearing land for agriculture?

Accepted Answer

deforestation

Question 59

How could you describe the Bantu people?

Accepted Answer

made up of many differences yet share a related language

Question 60

What is a cause of desertification?

Accepted Answer

slash and burn agriculture

Question 61

Which describes the effect of the Sahara on jobs in the region

Accepted Answer

there are few agricultural opportunities

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