Cultural Geography Chapter 16 Review

What is the term for the time in the late nineteenth century when Europeans were grabbing up pieces of Africa?

The countries making up the Lakes Region of Africa are: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi (p. 357)

What is H?

What is Q?

What's the term for when countries gained independence during the twentieth century?

What is F?

What is U?

Although Mount Kilimanjaro is tall, it never receives snow because it is so close to the equator.

How did Belgium divide the people of Rwanda and Burundi? (p. 366)

What is J?

What is C?

What is B2?

What are the names of the two major deserts of Africa? Which desert is northern and which is southern?

Rwanda is following a model of which of these?

What two rivers form the Nile River?

The majority of people in sub-Saharan Africa are ______?

What tribe from Kenya has members who are noted for their ritual dances and warriors’ skills?

What is L?

How do East African and Southern African economies compare?

What is K?

What is E?

What are areas of shallow water where boulders break the surface of the Nile?

What country surrounds Lesotho?

What is P?

What are the two seasons in sub-Saharan Africa?

What desert lies on the Tropic of Capricorn?

What is B?

What is V?

Amharic is this country’s unifying language.

Which of these are NOT one of the competing tribes in Rwanda that warred each other causing the genocide of 1994? (2)

This river is characterized as sluggish and carries a lot of silt.

The Boers developed the Afrikaans language.

What plain in Africa has more large land animals than any other place on earth?

The Blue Nile is the longer of the two Nile tributaries.

What is R?

What is the most common Bantu language?

Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa.

How is David Livingstone viewed by Africans today?

The Serengeti Plain is the only place in the world where vast herds of large mammals still migrate.

South Africa gets the majority of its energy from this type of power plant.

What is B1?

This is a popular cereal crop able to handle drier climates.

Which famous British explorer explored the interior of sub-Saharan Africa and brought the gospel to its inhabitants?

This is known as the cleanest city in Africa.

What is I?

What are diamonds called that are used to pay for civil wars?

Which is made of basalt magma from a previous volcano?

By what name were the original Dutch settlers in South Africa known?

What is the most endangered animal in Eastern and Southern Africa?

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has been able to boast one of the lowest crime rates in the world.

What resource does Lesotho sell to South Africa?

Due to the large number of shipwrecks that have occurred off the northern shore of Namibia, it has earned the nickname ?

The capitals of Eastern Africa are some of the lowest in elevation in the world.

What is D?

What is G?

This country started a national diamond finishing industry.

What is the biggest economic concern for Africa for the foreseeable future?

What is O?

What is S?

What is T?

Apartheid was a racial policy that respected all people as made in the image of God.

Which of these is the world's largest producer of 💎diamonds💎?

What is the name given to the “gash” in the earth that runs from the Middle East southward through East Africa?

Which country has many foreign military bases?

Which European country was not so quick to give up its colonies?

What is M?

Because of its shape, what is the wide Somali Peninsula on the east side of Africa called?

The Seychelles are made up of about 10 separate islands.

When the UN withdrew from this country in 1995, anarchy and famine returned.

What are the grasslands of Africa called?

Many of the tribes in sub-Saharan Africa are Bantu tribes.

Sub-Saharan Africans exhibit a low-context culture.

What is A?

These are the only two mainland sub-Saharan African nations to escape conflicts during the past forty years.

What have overtaken Lake Victoria?