Africa Unit Test

Question 1

Which of the following describes North Africa?

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Islamic majority, desert climate, oil wealth

Question 2

Why is India a destination for the outsourcing of American telephone customer service jobs?

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There is a large population of educated English speakers.

Question 3

An extreme and long-term shortage of food which causes hunger and death

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Famine

Question 4

In recent years, many countries have criticized Russia’s leaders for

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moving away from democratic principles

Question 5

policy of racial segregation in South Africa

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Apartheid

Question 6

Why is Nelson Mandela a hero to many South Africans?

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led a long struggle to end apartheid

Question 7

This disease causes the life expectancy to decrease in Africa

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HIV/AIDS

Question 8

How did the Europeans treat the Africans under their control?

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forced the native people to work under cruel conditions

Question 9

What do the mass killings in Rwanda and Darfur, Sudan have in common?

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ethnic conflict

Question 10

What did the Europeans do to Africa?

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They exploited the great mineral wealth of Africa

Question 11

The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has struggled for decades to establish

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a homeland for Palestinians

Question 12

Which part of Africa has been most impacted by desertification?

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The Sahel

Question 13

This physical feature of Africa is impacted by desertification

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Sahel

Question 14

The term used when people are forced to flee their homes and find new homes in foreign lands.

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Refugee

Question 15

Segregation in South Africa

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Aparthied

Question 16

term used to explain why America sends jobs to India where they are educated English speakers

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Outsourcing

Question 17

This man was seen as a hero in South Africa because he helped end apartheid.

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Nelson Mandela

Question 18

Which of the following rivers is sacred to Hinduism?

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Ganges

Question 19

Which of the following factors most account for the zonal (mirrored) climate pattern of Africa?

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latitude

Question 20

Over the last 25 years, the most significant changes in China have occurred in

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the economic system

Question 21

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is primarily over:

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Land

Question 22

Apartheid in the United States

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Segregation

Question 23

Why is Jerusalem considered a sacred city to the 3 monotheistic religions of the region?

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Important holy sites are located here.

Question 24

Which of the following is trying to gain independence from Russia?

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Chechnya

Question 25

Why has the world focused its attention on the conflict over Kashmir?

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nuclear weapons

Question 26

These grid lines account for the mirrored climate of Africa

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Latitude

Question 27

Areas of high population density in Africa are determined by

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access to freshwater

Question 28

growing just enough food to feed the farmer’s family, most popular type of farming in Africa.

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Subsistence farming

Question 29

An attempt to eliminate, in whole or in large part, a particular group of people

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Genocide

Question 30

How has the Three Gorges Dam benefited China?

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generated hydroelectric power

Question 31

Which group is a stateless nation in SWANA and has been persecuted by others in the region?

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Kurds

Question 32

The majority of the population of Australia can be found near the continent’s

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eastern coast

Question 33

What do conflicts in Rwanda, Cambodia, and Sudan have in common?

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internal genocide

Question 34

How did the world respond to the various Genocides in Africa?

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They turned their backs and ignored them

Question 35

What is imperialism?

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practice of building empires to support trade.

Question 36

What has been a result of political instability in Africa?

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economic difficulties

Question 37

part of Africa which is more developed bc separation by the Sahara desert Sahel grasslands.

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North Africa

Question 38

Which areas have the most in common with Southwest Asia in terms of religion and climate?

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North Africa

Question 39

What did Europeans not understand the most about Africa?

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Their Ethnic Diversity

Question 40

When the Europeans split up Africa did they pay any attention to the different Ethnic conflicts

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no

Question 41

How did the world respond to the Rwandan Genocide?

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Western & 1st World Countries did nothing to help

Question 42

Which of the following statements about sub-Saharan Africa countries is true?

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Most of the countries practice animism, Christianity,& Islam

Question 43

Which of the following has the largest Muslim population in the world?

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Indonesia

Question 44

policy of extending the rule or authority over foreign countries/acquiring and holding colonies

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Imperialism

Question 45

What is a similarity between Australia and New Zealand?

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language

Question 46

When people are forced to flee their homes&find themselves in camps&foreign lands, they become?

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Refugees

Question 47

A reason the North Africa developed differently from the rest of Africa was...

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Sahara Desert and Sahel

Question 48

a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time

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Epidemic

Question 49

Why did many people in certain regions have to migrate because desert areas in Africa spread

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overgrazing of animals in the Sahel and drought

Question 50

Animist religions share a belief in the importance of

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spirits in nature.

Question 51

Buddhism was formed out of which previous religion?

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Hinduism

Question 52

Reincarnation is a shared belief among which religions?

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Sikhism and Hinduism

Question 53

Which two groups were involved in the Rwandan Genocide?

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The Hutus killed up to 1 million Tutsis

Africa Unit Test

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Africa Unit Test

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