Africa

Question 1

Beginning in the 800s in which directions did the Bantu people migrate

Answer 1

South

Question 2

What was Ghana’s major resource for trading

Answer 2

Gold

Question 3

How is the very early African history recorded

Answer 3

In paintings

Question 4

Do the Drakensberg mountains form part of the escarpment along the south east coast of Africa

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

What factors limit water transportation inland in Subsaharan Africa

Answer 5

Most Rivers aren’t navigable from start to end

Question 6

Why is sub-Saharan Africa losing fertile land

Answer 6

Overgrazing

Question 7

The presence or absence of what determines the climate in different parts of the African continent

Answer 7

Water

Question 8

What created the great Rift Valley

Answer 8

Tech tonic activity

Question 9

What is the Sahel and where is it

Answer 9

Coast grassland south of the Sahara

Question 10

What is the vegetation near the equator in Africa

Answer 10

Tropical rain forest

Question 11

What other vegetation regions lie north or south of the equator

Answer 11

Kalahari is south

Question 12

And what part of Africa is the Kalahari Desert located

Answer 12

Southern

Question 13

What is the major cause of the reduction of the elephant population in Africa

Answer 13

Poaching and ivory hunters

Question 14

How would the creation of game preservers protect the wild animals of Africa

Answer 14

They would be able to live without being hunted

Question 15

In recent years what has caused great suffering in Sudan

Answer 15

A Civil War between Arabs and Christians

Question 16

Among the men and women of Africa who works in cash crop farming and who works in subsistence farming

Answer 16

Women work in subsistence

men work in cash

Question 17

What type of farming is most commonly practiced in Africa

Answer 17

Subsistence farming

Question 18

What is the sedentary farming

Answer 18

Subsistence farming

Question 19

Who gets most of the profits from mines in south Africa

Answer 19

Foreign corporations

Question 20

What need prompted the great increase and slave trade of Africa

Answer 20

Human labor in the New World

Question 21

Approximately how many languages are spoken in sub-Saharan Africa

Answer 21

800

Question 22

In what areas have cities developed in Africa

Answer 22

Waterways
coastlines
fertile land

Question 23

Which part of sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of Muslims

Answer 23

East and growing west

Question 24

In the late 1800s seeing potential resources and markets for their goods what did Europeans do in Africa

Answer 24

Separated Africa into the three countries

Question 25

Why is the population of sub-Saharan Africa unevenly distributed

Answer 25

Lack of water

Question 26

``` Literacy rate Per capita GNI Life expectancy Infant mortality rates Population density Rate of natural increase ```

Answer 26

``` Lower lower lower higher lower lower ```

Question 27

Do you think the Africans who practice a traditional religion (animism) make efforts to convert neighboring people

Answer 27

No

Question 28

How was like Volta created

Answer 28

It is man-made

Question 29

When was south Africa his first election allowing all adults of every race to vote

Answer 29

1994

Question 30

The expansion of agricultural lands in Africa poses a threat to the rain forest true or false

Answer 30

True

Question 31

Which of the following are found in the great rift valley

Answer 31

Mountains and large lakes

Question 32

Where are the northernmost and southernmost parts of the great rift valley

Answer 32

Syria to Mozambique

Question 33

Along what line of latitude in Africa are the rain forest found

Answer 33

Equator