Africa Review

Question 0

Which disease is caused by a lack of protein?

Answer 0

Red baby

Question 1

Who is the tallest group of people in the world?

Answer 1

Dinka

Question 2

What vector brings African sleeping sickness?

Answer 2

The tsetse fly

Question 3

Which group of people have a click incorporated into their language?

Answer 3

San (bushmen)

Question 4

Which group fought the dutch in the battle of blood river?

Answer 4

Zulu

Question 5

Four things about Malan

Answer 5

South Africa
1948
Dutch
Tomlinson committee

Question 6

Who were the earliest inhabitants of Africa?

Answer 6

San (bushmen)

Question 7

When did the Dutch arrive in South Africa?

Answer 7

1652

Question 8

Four things about the Khoikhoi

Answer 8

South Africa
Nomads
First to meet the Dutch
Griqua are their offspring

Question 9

Approximately, how many languages are spoken in Africa?

Answer 9

Over 1200

Question 10

What are the two largest problems for Africa?

Answer 10

There are too many languages

Overpopulation

Question 11

Three things about the Griqua

Answer 11

Outcasts
Go to center
Dutch
Khoikhoi

Question 12

Which country is the most populated?

Answer 12

Nigeria

Question 13

Which city is most populated?

Answer 13

Cairo

Question 14

What is Egypt’s number one export?

Answer 14

Oil and petroleum (Used to be Cotton)

Question 15

Four things about the Aswan high dam

Answer 15

In Egypt
Nile River
Doesn’t allow silt and nutrients to go to crops
Electricity

Question 16

What is unique about Kimberly in south Africa?

Answer 16

It is a mine with diamonds

Question 17

What does Maghreb mean?

Answer 17

Land farther west

Question 18

The average African is host to how many parasites in their lifetime?

Answer 18

Three

Question 19

What vector brings schistosomiasis?

Answer 19

Snails

Question 20

What is marasmus?

Answer 20

Malnutrition

Question 21

What is the great rift valley and how many grand canyons can fit into it?

Answer 21

Two plates that pull apart

30

Question 22

What is the birthrate, death rate, life expectancy, and per capita income for Africa?

Answer 22

The birthrate is 44
The death rate is 14
The life expectancy is 53
The per capita income is 610

Question 23

What is Afrikaans?

Answer 23

Dutch and French in south Africa

Question 24

A gully or dry riverbed

Answer 24

Wadi

Question 25

A market in an Arab community

Answer 25

Souk

Question 26

This was instituted to encourage economic growth in Kenya

Answer 26

Harambee

Question 27

religious belief that nature has spiritual beings

Answer 27

Animism

Question 28

An overthrow of an existing government

Answer 28

Coup

Question 29

An Egyptian farmer

Answer 29

Fellaheen

Question 30

Broad band of semi arid land south of the Sahara

Answer 30

Sahel

Question 31

A steep cliff that separates two level areas of differing elevations

Answer 31

Escarpment

Question 32

A country completely surrounded by another country

Answer 32

Enclave

Question 33

Wealth in the form of money or property owned or used in business; Wealth in whatever form, used to produce more wealth

Answer 33

Capital

Question 34

The old section of a north African city usually centered around a mosque

Answer 34

Medina

Question 35

A person who flees his or her country to escape invasion, oppression, or persecution

Answer 35

Refugee

Question 36

A program to reform the structure of an economy

Answer 36

Structural adjustment program

Question 37

The departure of trained white administrators and technicians from a region

Answer 37

White flight