Chap 18 Southern Africa Flashcards
What is different from the Okavango river from other large rivers?
It does not flow into ocean. It flows into a basin in Botswana.
What is an escarpment?
Steep face of a plateau or other raised area.
What is southern Africa’s driest climate?
The Namibia desert
What are the natural resources of Southern Africa?
Gold, diamonds, platinum, uranium, as well as a variety of crops.
What Europeans settled in South Africa?
The Dutch people from the Netherlands.
Who are the Boers?
Afrikaner frontier farmers who spread out from the original colony and resisted the British.
Who were Afrikaners?
Dutch, French, and German settlers and descendants that settled the cape of good hope in Southern Africa.
What is apartheid?
Policy from the government of separation of races.
