Unit 7 - Africa (2021-2022)

Question 1

Vocabulary: People who govern themselves through family lineage.

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stateless society

Question 2

Once a world pandemic, ____ is still very prevalent in Africa as the continent had over 25 million cases in 2018.

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HIV/AIDS

Question 3

Ethnic, social, and economic problems that exist today in Africa can be traced back to...

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European Colonization

Question 4

The biome or climate that is most characteristic near the equator?

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Tropical

Question 5

Which environmental change resulted from increasing population and overgrazing in the Sahel?

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Desertification

Question 6

Vocabulary: Separation of races in South Africa.

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apartheid

Question 7

Why were the 1960s and 1970s an important time for many African nations?

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Many nations won their independence

Question 8

The largest navigable waterway in Africa is what river?

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Congo

Question 9

Political pattern that characterized South Africa for most of 20th Cent.?

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A system of legal racial segregation

Question 10

Vocabulary: A high waterfall

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Cataract

Question 11

Which physical process is responsible for the creation of rift valleys in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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Techtonic Forces

Question 12

This European leader developed an interest in Africa, helping pave the way for later European colonization.

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King Leopold II

Question 13

Africa is mainly made up of all the following cultural influences –

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Traditional, Islamic, and European

Question 14

Vocabulary: A Grassland with some trees

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Savanna

Question 15

Vocabulary: The raising of crops to sale or trade.

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cash crop

Question 16

Identify major events in African history –

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All answers are correct

Question 17

Caused by tectonic movement, _______ _______ are the continent’s most distinctive landforms.

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rift valleys

Question 18

What does the letter B correspond to?

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The Nile

Question 19

Name the traditional African art that influenced Pablo Picasso.

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Fang Scuptures

Question 20

The _________ migration had an enormous impact on Africa's economic, cultural, and political practices.

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Bantu

Question 21

Vocabulary: The raising of crops mainly for your own needs.

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subsistence farming

Question 22

The world’s longest river, flows more than 4,000 miles through Uganda and Sudan and into Egypt.

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Nile

Question 23

As one moves away from the equator, climate changes from...

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tropical to savanna to steppe to desert

Question 24

Which factor most accounts for the creation of African borders?

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European colonization

Question 25

The color boundaries on the map are a representation of –

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Ethnic groups

Question 26

What does the letter C correspond to?

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The Great Rift Valley

Question 27

Most of the rivers in Africa are of little help in transporting quantities of people and/or goods because the rivers –

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Have many waterfalls and rapids

Question 28

The end of apartheid in South Africa resulted primarily from..

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international pressure by protests and internal unrest

Question 29

Which statement best describes how globalization has historically affected Sub-Saharan Africa?

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The region has been exploited for its natural resources.

Question 30

What is a cause of Africa losing fertile land?

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desertification casued by overgrazing

Question 31

European colonization disrupted traditional African communities by -

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All answers are correct

Question 32

What dominates the landscape of Africa?

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plateaus and basins

Question 33

Declining agricultural productivity throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa is contributing to

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large-scale rural to urban migration

Question 34

Vocabulary: A steep slope or cliff

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Escarpment

Question 35

What is Africa's Highest Mountain?

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Mt. Kilimanjaro

Question 36

During the mid-1800s the industrialized nations of Europe paid attention to Africa. Why?

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European nations wanted to exploit Africas natural resources

Question 37

How did Colonial Europeans view the cultures of Africa? Choose the most correct answer.

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Uncivilized

Question 38

What type of climate dominates North Africa?

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Hot and arid

Question 39

In 1994, South Africa held its first election in which all people could vote. Who was elected president?

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Nelson Mandella

Question 40

Scientists believe that Africa was home to some of the earliest humans, due to this, parts of Africa have been deemed -

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the Cradle of Hummanity

Question 41

What does the letter A correspond to?

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The Sahara Desert

Question 42

The physical geographic feature that had the greatest effect on the settlement of North Africa.

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Desert

Question 43

Vocabulary: Volcanic mountains rise on its edges, deep lakes parallel its length

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Rift Valley

Unit 7 - Africa (2021-2022)

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Unit 7 - Africa (2021-2022)

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