Africa Unit

Question 1

Africa’s stage of development

Answer 1

Less Developed/Developing

Question 2

Many rural areas lack electricity, roads, schools=limited__________

Answer 2

Infrastructure

Question 3

Most people produce just enough to survive, whether it is farming or herding

Answer 3

Subsistence

Question 4

What do these countries have in common, economic concern?
Mali, Chad, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe

Answer 4

Lanlocked

Question 5

Overgrazing and drought have caused this in the Sahel

Answer 5

Desertification

Question 6

Main climate type in central Africa

Answer 6

Tropical wet

Question 7

World’s largest hot desert

Answer 7

The Sahara

Question 8

Populations cluster around this limited resource

Answer 8

Water

Question 9

Dramatic features of eastern Africa caused by plate tectonics, often form deep lakes

Answer 9

Rift Valleys

Question 10

Climate pattern of the Sahel(going left to right)

Answer 10

Zonal or Banded

Question 11

These are banned from sale after being used to fund the war in Sierra Leone

Answer 11

Blood Diamonds

Question 12

This disease had lowered life expectancy in some countries by as much as 20 years

Answer 12

AIDS

Question 13

Most common languages in North and sub-Saharan Africa

Answer 13

Arabic and English

Question 14

Most indigenous African religions fall in this category

Answer 14

Animism

Question 15

Rate of Africa’s population growth

Answer 15

Rapid

Question 16

The two countries which were not colonized

Answer 16

Ethiopia and Liberia

Question 17

Gaining political control of a country by a foreign area of people

Answer 17

Colonialism/Imperialism

Question 18

14 European nations met to establish rules for dividing Africa

Answer 18

Berlin Conference

Question 19

Positive effects of Imperialism

Answer 19

Built school, modern cities, improved some infrastructure, improved medical care, introduction of lingua franca

Question 20

Negative long term consequences of Imperialism

Answer 20

Limited development, dictatorship and political instability

Question 21

Nelson Mandela led the fight against this policy with civil disobedience

Answer 21

Apartheid

Question 22

Elected in the first, free-all-race election

Answer 22

Nelson Mandela

Question 23

During the genocide in Rwanda, this group killed one million Tutsi

Answer 23

Hutu

Question 24

Genocide in Darfur, Sudan based on what difference

Answer 24

What is ethnic(Arab vs. African)

Question 25

Africa sometimes called a continent of ________ - people fleeing famine or conflict

Answer 25

Refugees

Question 26

Oil in the southern part of this country caused outbreak of civil war

Answer 26

Sudan

Question 27

United States came to this country in 1992 to deliver food, ultimately mission unsuccessful

Answer 27

Somalia

Question 28

Desert made up of sand

Answer 28

Erg

Question 29

Africa is known as the " ________ continent"

Answer 29

Plateau

Question 30

Tectonic activity in East Africa created this landform where the area is breaking away from the continent

Answer 30

Great Rift Valley

Question 31

Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and Djibouti make up this land form

Answer 31

Horn of Africa

Question 32

Reasons for Ethnic Conflict

Answer 32

Resources, political influence, and power

Question 33

The systematic and planned extermination or an entire, racial, political, or ethnic group

Answer 33

Genocide

Question 34

Effects of Civil War

Answer 34

Impoverished nations, millions of casualties, regional wars, refugees, disease and famine, Genocide, and child soldiers

Question 35

The name of the Arab militia group in Dafur, Sudan

Answer 35

Janaweed

Question 36

The largest cash crop in South Africa

Answer 36

Coffee

Question 37

Colonized central Africa

Answer 37

Belgium

Question 38

Colonized East Africa

Answer 38

Italy

Question 39

Organization helping to stop the spread of disease across the world, especially Africa

Answer 39

World Health Organization

Question 40

The source and mouth of the Nile River

Answer 40

Lake Victoria and Mediterranean sea

Question 41

Political party for Black Africans formed to assist them getting rights

Answer 41

African National Congress(ANC)

Question 42

Reason Liberia was created

Answer 42

Freed slaves from the US

Question 43

Grassy transition area between desert and rainforest

Answer 43

Sahel

Question 44

Unifies Africa

Answer 44

Religions and share many cultural values such as respect for elders and communal raising of children

Question 45

Region of Africa called "the Cradle of Humanity"

Answer 45

East

Question 46

An uncontrollable outbreak of disease that affects a large population over a large geographic area(more widespread)

Answer 46

Pandemic

Question 47

Percentage of South Africa infected with HIV/AIDS

Answer 47

25%

Question 48

The economies of most African nations are based on this

Answer 48

Raw Materials

Question 49

An agricultural or mining product that can be sold

Answer 49

Commodity

Question 50

Central African merchants gave this to Europeans in exchange for guns and goods

Answer 50

Slavery

Question 51

Leader of the African National Congress

Answer 51

Nelson Mandela

Question 52

Most African nations gained their independence by then

Answer 52

1960's

Question 53

Major cultural and religious influence in North Africa

Answer 53

Islam

Question 54

The purpose of the Berlin Conference

Answer 54

To prevent conflict over Africa's raw materials