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Chapter 10: Africa Flashcards

1
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What is so special about Africa?

A

It has a foot on all four continents

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2
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In what three ways was the value of Africa seen in?

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Yellow gold
White gold
Black gold

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What was added to Africa’s mix of resources in 1867?

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Diamonds

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4
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Where is Africa located?

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South of the Sahara

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5
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What is Africa’s biggest problem?

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They export raw materials and import finished products

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6
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What is block voting?

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Voting the same way

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7
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What is Africa (direction wise)?

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Tilted

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8
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What is another name for the north east?

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The roof of Africa

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9
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When did Africa gain independence?

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After ww2

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10
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What were the Ruwenzori mountains?

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Highest mountain range

Called mountains of the moon

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11
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What mountains are in southeast Africa?

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Drakens Berg

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12
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What are the two mountain peeks?

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Mt. Kilimanjaro

Mt. Kenya

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13
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Where is it believed that the earliest people evolved?

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Great Rift Valle

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14
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What comes in and mashes with the Great Lakes?

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Western Rift

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15
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What is lake Victoria?

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Biggest in Africa
2nd to Lake Superior
Headquarters to the Nile

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16
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What is Lake Tanganyika?

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Longest fresh water lake in the world
2nd deepest lake in the world
Lake Baikalis is the headquarters

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17
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What is lake Malahri?

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Very dangerous

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18
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What is lake Chad?

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Evaporating
No outlet to the sea
Not very deep

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19
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What are the two mountain peeks?

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Mt. Kilimanjaro

Mt. Kenya

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20
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Where is it believed that the earliest people evolved?

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Great Rift Valle

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21
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What comes in and mashes with the Great Lakes?

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Western Rift

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22
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What is lake Victoria?

A

Biggest in Africa
2nd to Lake Superior
Headquarters to the Nile

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23
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What is Lake Tanganyika?

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Longest fresh water lake in the world
2nd deepest lake in the world
Lake Baikalis is the headquarters

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24
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What is lake Malahri?

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Very dangerous

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25
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What is lake Chad?

A

Evaporating
No outlet to the sea
Not very deep

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26
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What is the longest river in the world?

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Nile

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27
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What is the Zaire river?

A

Second greatest water flow
Drains a rainforest of 1.6 million sq. miles
Empties into Atlantic ocean
Enters without forming a pelta
Used more for transportation then any other river

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28
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What is the Niger River?

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Empties into gulf of Guriea

Forms a delta over 200 miles

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29
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What is the Zambesi River?

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Flows into Indian Ocean

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30
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What is Victoria Falls?

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Located in the Zambesi River
Twice the height of Niagra falls
“Smoke that Thunders”

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31
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What is the Kariba Resovor?

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Man made

Bigger than the state of Rhode Island

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32
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Low lands are… (Climate)

A

Hot and humid

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33
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Highlands are… (Climate)

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More comfortable

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34
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The further away from the equator, the ________ _______ ________ you get. (Think Climate)

A

Less rainfall

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35
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What can change the amount of rainfall one receives?

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Wind
Altitude
Ocean Currents

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36
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What area receives the most rainfall?

A

Where the Slope faces (West)

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37
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What is the tropical rainforest?

What are the three areas and their origins?

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Jungle
Receives 60-100 inches of rainfall
No dry season
VERY WET
3 story forest
Makes up 10% of Africa's land mass

Either side of the equator (Nigeria and Zaire)

West Africa (along coast; Ciaraleyon & Liberia & Libra Coast)

Along East Coast (Malagasy Republic; Madagascar)

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38
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What is the Savanna? What are the 2 areas?

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Desert
Plains
Flat
Grasslands

Africa has more than all the continents put together

20-30 inches of rainfall

Dry and wet season

2 areas on either side of the equator

North is Sudan
South is Sergenti

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39
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What is the steppe?

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10-20 inches of rain

Farming is Risky

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40
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What is the desert?

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Less that 10 inches or rain

3 areas:
Sahara
Namib
Kalahari

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41
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What does Sahara mean?

A

Wilderness

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42
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What/ where is the Namib Desert?

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Coastal desert

Atlantic side

43
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What is the humid subtropic?

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Southeastern part
Weather is like Florida and Georgia
40-60 inches of rainfall
Rains once a month

44
Q

What is Mediterranean climate?

A

Southwestern part
Good for human life and crops
Warm, dry summers
Cool winter

45
Q

What is veldt?

A

Republic of South Africa

Dutch came from here

46
Q

Why does Africa lack fertile soil?

A

Leaching
Water erosion
Rapid decay of plants

47
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What is leeching?

A

Warm rain fall dissolves chemicals in soul and causes the chemicals to go down beneath the root system so the roots cannot receive the chemicals it need to survive

48
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What is water erosion?

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Water displaces the top soil and moves it forming a mud puddle

49
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What is the rapid decay of plants?

A

High temp causes rapid decay of plants which does not allow humus to form but allows carbon dioxide to form and release into the air

50
Q

_______ ________ has 200 species of fish living in it.

A

Lake Maloy

51
Q

Why do the Africans not eat fish?

A

It spoils quickly
Most garners are herders
Lack of places to fish

52
Q

How did they encourage eating fish in Africa and what is the process?

A

Farm fishing

In Nigeria and Uganda
Pond fed fish while growing rice in the same pond

53
Q

What/ where is Walvis Bay?

A

Southwest Africa
Leading fishing port
Process fish that people do eat and make them animal food or fertilizer

54
Q

Why has animal life decreased?

A

Human emproachment
Poaching
Hunting

55
Q

What is Kruger national park?

A

Hunter reservation
Southwest Africa
Biggest in world

56
Q

What trees produce rich woods?

A 
Mahogany 
Walnut 
Rosewood
Black wood
Ebbenay
Teak
57
Q

Why does Africa only supply 4% of the worlds lumber?

A

Trees grow slowly
Not enough money for electricity
Located far from transportation centers

58
Q

Where does most lumber come from?

A

The west

59
Q

Why does Africa produce only 10% of the worlds water?

A

Little need except for mines
Too little money to afford electricity
Best source of hydro-electricity are in remote places

60
Q

What is the number 1 and number 2 River in contributing water?

A

Zaire

Zambei

61
Q

What does Africa lack?

A

Coal and oil

62
Q

What is cooper?

A

King

63
Q

Where are 70% of two worlds demands from?

A

Kimberly

64
Q

Where is 60% of the worlds gold from?

A

Johannesburg

65
Q

What does Africa have large amounts of? (Think mineral wealth)

A

Platinum and uranium

66
Q

What is Beryllium?

A 
Light
Strong
Hold strength at high temp
Used for rockets and jets 
Zyer and Uganda
67
Q

What is colbot?

A

Does not rust
Used as an aole; machine tools, rockets, jest engines
Zyer and Zambia

68
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What is columbium?

A

Used as an aloe; stainless steel

Nigeria

69
Q

What is tantalum?

A

Blue colored
Resists acid in high temps
Used in power plants
Produced in Nigeria

70
Q

What are the four other important minerals?

A

Manganese
Ghana
Bauxite
Guinea

71
Q

Why do we not know Africa’s true population?

A

Transportation is poor
Locals do not trust government officials
Don’t have money to take census

72
Q

What are the three major groups?

A

Caucasiasoids
Negroids
Mongoloids

73
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What are Africa’s four Great Lakes?

A

Lake Victoria
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Malahri
Lake Chad

74
Q

What are the Hamites?

A

Lighter skin
Intermarriage
Medium height
Eutheopua and Somalia

75
Q

What are the Europeans?

A

Primary African takers

76
Q

Where are the Asians from and where do they live?

A

Indian Pakistan

Live on east coast

77
Q

What/where are the Semites?

A

Live on islands of Zanzahabaf and some cities along the east coast

78
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What are the four major languages and where do they originate from?

A

Zulu- South Africa

Swahili- East Africa

Hausa- West Africa

Bantus- Central and Southern Africa (speak Bantu)

79
Q

In most cases, what is the official language of the land?

A

That of the original conquers

80
Q

What are tribes made up of?

A

People from the same ancestors

81
Q

What are the three major tribes?

A

Gana

Mali

Songhigh

82
Q

Why have tribes been loosening?

A

People have been moving to cities

83
Q

What was bride wealth marriage?

A

Arranged by parent

Dowary system

84
Q

What is Africa’s nickname?

A

Tropical continent

85
Q

What is the dowary system?

A

Husband must pay father for the daughter

Form of insurance to make sure the bride is treated well

86
Q

What is polygamy?

A

One husband with numerous wives

88
Q

__________ Africans ___________ polygomy marriages

A

Many

Support

89
Q

What is the most important reason for children?

A

Help in house and on farm

90
Q

What happens when a woman’s husband dies?

A

The husbands brother steps in which benefits both

91
Q

What causes the most problems with pologomy marriages?

A

Treatment of children

92
Q

What is animism?

A

Everything has a soul

Worship many things

Believe when a person dies, soul enters the spirit world then comes back to the village in the form of a baby

93
Q

What is a fetish and who uses it?

A

Traditional healers use it

Objects that have special powers
The more powerful have human bones or blood in them
The uneducated believe strongly in these

94
Q

What is Islam?

A

Founded by Mohammad
Spread to Africa in the 1600’s
Mostly in Western Africa

95
Q

What is Christianity?

A

Africa’s oldest religion
Live in Ethiopia
Coptic church
Christian missionaries came over in the 1600’s

96
Q

What is Hinduism?

A

Came with workers from India and Pakistan to work for British in the 1800’s

97
Q

What are the three sculptors?

A

Bronzes of Benin

Heads of Ife

Mok Terra Kata

98
Q

What were the styles of music?

A

Drums

Jazz
Gospel
Rhythm
Blues

99
Q

What were the two types of writing about?

A

1
Prejudice and discrimination

2
Loss of traditional values and customs

100
Q

What two authors wrote about prejudice and discrimination and what was their book called?

A

Albert Luthuli
Let My People Go

Kenith Kaunda
Zambia Shall Be Free

101
Q

Who wrote about The loss of traditional values and customs and what was his book called?

A

Zeke Mphahlele

Down second avenue

102
Q

What happened in the northeastern corner?

A

The earliest people came out of there .

It became a travel and trade route.

102
Q

Where/what is the Kalahati Desert?

A

East of Nambi
Semi-desert
Little rain but most out of the three

104
Q

What is Africa filled with today and what does it mean?

A

Contrasts

One foot in the past and one in the future

104
Q

What is the land bridge out?

A

Northeastern corner

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