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Review for Unit Test Subsaharan Africa
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1
Which of the following was a key problem faced by newly independent African countries?
Lack of essential infrastructure, such as hospitals, schools
Lack of well-educated citizens to fill professional jobs.
Poorly drawn borders that led to ethnic conflicts.
Local resources and land often remained owned by foreigners.
2
What African feature is shown as brown in the following map?
The Serengeti
The Namib'
The Sahel
The Sahara
3
What makes African rivers less valuable for transportation than European rivers?
They are infested by mosquitoes.
Attacks by hippos and crocodiles make them unpopular.
Most have rapids and cataracts.
Flow away from Europe, making it less likely to have ports.
4
Which country has had decades of ethnic, religious and economic conflicts, leading to a split?
Ghana
Mozambique
Angola
Sudan
5
Kenyans eating tribal foods while listening to folk music and wearing African-style clothing is
the influence of Western media and culture on modern Africa.
an example of the poverty and isolation of peoples in Kenya.
an example of traditional culture in East Africa.
an example of the lasting effects of colonialism.
6
What is the significant result of tropical diseases in Africa?
Caused African countries to enter Negative Population Growth
Has led to mass migrations & desertification in West Africa.
Weakens the economic growth of countries due to illness.
Made the continent avoided by European colonization.
7
What was the primary purpose of European Imperialism in Africa during the 1800s?
To encourage migration to the tropical regions from Europe.
To control the source of raw materials needed for industry.
To convert the native Muslims and native religionists.
To control the salt trade.
8
Which of the following is a long term result of European colonialism in Africa?
The spread of animist religious traditions to Western Europe
Spread of African culture into Germany & the Netherlands.
Unification of African nations as French or English speakers
Africa remains behind in industrialization & infrastructure.
9
The American segregation laws of the early 20th Century are similar to what in South Africa?
The Triangle Laws
The Blue Laws
The Apartheid Laws
The Bantu Laws
10
What is the significance of the boundaries drawn up at the Berlin Conference for modern Africa?
Distributed resources equally as colonies & as countries.
Are often geometric, ignoring cultural and physical features
Were drawn along religious boundaries.
Most are river boundaries, leading to disputes over water.
11
Why are there so few mountain ranges in Africa?
Undermining of mountains by termites &other tropical insects
All mountain ranges have been eroded away by the rivers.
Lack of convergent plate tectonics along the African plate.
Mass mining operations.
12
What is one of the problems developing African mineral wealth today?
Most of the resources are found in active tectonic zones.
Most valuable resources are found in the deep Sahara.
Africa has few resources of value in the modern world.
The dependence on outside bank funding for such projects.
13
Which of the following was a common form of government in Africa after independence?
Constitutional Monarchy
Democratic republics or parliamentary states.
Theocracy
Military Dicatorship
14
What event is visible in the following photo, taken in West Africa in the 1990s?
Is a good example of a savanna vegetation zone in Africa
This area has been depopulated, owing to the Africa diaspora
This destruction was caused by the spread of Malaria.
This farming area has been subject to desertification.
15
Which region of Africa has been most impacted by the presence of HIV/AIDS?
Central Africa
Southern Africa
North Africa
West Africa
16
Which of the following would most likely be demographic data representing a West African LDC?
Literacy 60%, Urbanization 25%, Fertility Rate 4.5.
Literacy 12%, Urbanization 6%, Fertility Rate 8.4
Literacy 95%, Urbanization 92%, Fertility Rate 2.6
Literacy 80%, Urbanization 50%, Fertility Rate 4.9
17
Which of the following would be the most dominant Climate Zone found in Africa?
Tropical Wet/Dry
Tropical Wet
Humid Subtropical
Arid
18
How African territory was governed, what investments were made & how resources were exploited:
Things that determined the direction of the Bantu migration.
Would be elements of European colonialism.
Are the direct causes of desertification in southern Africa.
Were the long term results of the African Diaspora.
19
The presence of African words, culture & religion in places like Brazil & Haiti is a result of
The African Diaspora
The Malian Empire
The Bantu Migrations
The colonial occupation of East Africa.
20
What major physical feature is seen in the following map?
The Serengeti
The Kalahari
The Congo Basin
The Niger Basin
21
How did the West African empires build their power and wealth?
Control of the salt trade and gold mines.
Control of the Nile Valley and trade with the Middle East.
Superior naval technology.
Control of the Triangle Trade.
22
What vegetation zone is shown in the green color on the following world map?
Tropical Savanna
Tropical Rainforest
Mediterranean
Semiarid
23
Why is West and Central Africa burdened by the presence of diseases such as Dengue & Malaria?
Region is hot and wet, being a breeding ground for mosquitos
Eating tropical bats & monkeys leads to the spread of these.
Goat and Sheep herds spread disease across grasslands.
Road systems promote the spread of communicable disease.
24
Which disease had proven to be an epidemic across southern Africa in recent decades?
The T-virus
AIDS/HIV
Malaria
Bubonic Plague
25
What is the significance of the people seen in the following map?
Bantu group makes up most languages of southern Africa.
Are the dominant culture of the Saharan region of Africa.
A group that can be traced owing to their use of iron tools.
Are a migration group that used boats to migrate southward.
