Ancient Africa A

Question 0

What is linguistics ????????

Answer 0

The study of structure and changes of languages

Question 1

Who are botanists. ????????

Answer 1

Scientists who study plants , can trace the movements of people by their crops

Question 2

Most African villages had at least one official story teller called what

Answer 2

Griot

Question 3

What is a rain forest

Answer 3

Tropical area of Africa known as the tropics. some parts receive as much as 100 inches of rain a year

Question 4

When was Africa a land of thriving nations

Answer 4

Ancient times

Question 4

What is the Horn of Africa

Answer 4

A peninsula

Question 5

Who were the Bantus

Answer 5

An early African people

Question 6

What is one way to organize Africa’s land and people

Answer 6

Divide the continent into regions

Question 7

What is an oasis

Answer 7

A fertile area with water

Question 9

What is the savanna

Answer 9

The area between the Sahara and Kalahari deserts with tall grasses and few trees

Question 10

What is oral history

Answer 10

Stories passed on from generation to generation that are spoken and not written

Question 11

Why do stories get mixed up

Answer 11

Because they get compared with other stories

Question 12

Africa is the only content to have …… North and south of the equator?

Answer 12

Deserts

Question 13

What is the largest desert in Africa?

Answer 13

Sahara

Question 14

Which desert is found in the north of Africa?

Answer 14

Sahara

Question 15

Which deserts are found in the south of Africa?

Answer 15

Kalahari and Namib deserts

Question 16

What forms when the wind blows the water vapor high into nearby mountains without allowing rain to fall on the lowlands?

Answer 16

Rain shadow desert

Question 17

Much of the Tropics are made up of?

Answer 17

Rai forests

Question 18

Africa has the largest …… Area of any continent?

Answer 18

Tropical area

Question 19

Where is Mount Kilimanjaro located and how tall is it?

Answer 19

Tanzania and it is over nineteen thousand feet high

Question 20

Name 4 methods used to track the migration of African people

Answer 20

Linguistics
Botany
Archaeology
Oral history

Question 21

How do botanists trace the Bantu people’s migration routes?

Answer 21

By tracking the spread of crops. When the bantu people moved they took seeds with them

Question 22

How do linguists trace the migration routs of the Bantu?

Answer 22

By studying the words and grammar that people lent and borrowed

Question 23

Whose job was it to learn the villages history to pass on to the next generation?

Answer 23

Griot

Question 24

What was the griots job?

Answer 24

To teach the children and remind the adults of their past

Question 25

How do archaeologists know about the weapons that the early African people used for hunting and fighting? And what animals they hunted?

Answer 25

From cave paintings