Africa Flashcards
Beginning in the 800s in which directions did the Bantu people migrate
South
What was Ghana’s major resource for trading
Gold
How is the very early African history recorded
In paintings
Do the Drakensberg mountains form part of the escarpment along the south east coast of Africa
Yes
What factors limit water transportation inland in Subsaharan Africa
Most Rivers aren’t navigable from start to end
Why is sub-Saharan Africa losing fertile land
Overgrazing
The presence or absence of what determines the climate in different parts of the African continent
Water
What created the great Rift Valley
Tech tonic activity
What is the Sahel and where is it
Coast grassland south of the Sahara
What is the vegetation near the equator in Africa
Tropical rain forest
What other vegetation regions lie north or south of the equator
Kalahari is south
And what part of Africa is the Kalahari Desert located
Southern
What is the major cause of the reduction of the elephant population in Africa
Poaching and ivory hunters
How would the creation of game preservers protect the wild animals of Africa
They would be able to live without being hunted
In recent years what has caused great suffering in Sudan
A Civil War between Arabs and Christians
Among the men and women of Africa who works in cash crop farming and who works in subsistence farming
Women work in subsistence
men work in cash
What type of farming is most commonly practiced in Africa
Subsistence farming
What is the sedentary farming
Subsistence farming
Who gets most of the profits from mines in south Africa
Foreign corporations
What need prompted the great increase and slave trade of Africa
Human labor in the New World
Approximately how many languages are spoken in sub-Saharan Africa
800
In what areas have cities developed in Africa
Waterways
coastlines
fertile land
Which part of sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of Muslims
East and growing west
In the late 1800s seeing potential resources and markets for their goods what did Europeans do in Africa
Separated Africa into the three countries
Why is the population of sub-Saharan Africa unevenly distributed
Lack of water
Literacy rate Per capita GNI Life expectancy Infant mortality rates Population density Rate of natural increase
Lower lower lower higher lower lower
Do you think the Africans who practice a traditional religion (animism) make efforts to convert neighboring people
No
How was like Volta created
It is man-made
When was south Africa his first election allowing all adults of every race to vote
1994
The expansion of agricultural lands in Africa poses a threat to the rain forest
true or false
True
Which of the following are found in the great rift valley
Mountains and large lakes
Where are the northernmost and southernmost parts of the great rift valley
Syria to Mozambique
Along what line of latitude in Africa are the rain forest found
Equator
