Chapter 10: Africa Flashcards
1
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What is so special about Africa?
A
It has a foot on all four continents
2
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In what three ways was the value of Africa seen in?
A
Yellow gold
White gold
Black gold
3
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What was added to Africa’s mix of resources in 1867?
A
Diamonds
4
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Where is Africa located?
A
South of the Sahara
5
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What is Africa’s biggest problem?
A
They export raw materials and import finished products
6
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What is block voting?
A
Voting the same way
7
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What is Africa (direction wise)?
A
Tilted
8
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What is another name for the north east?
A
The roof of Africa
9
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When did Africa gain independence?
A
After ww2
10
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What were the Ruwenzori mountains?
A
Highest mountain range
Called mountains of the moon
11
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What mountains are in southeast Africa?
A
Drakens Berg
12
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What are the two mountain peeks?
A
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Mt. Kenya
13
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Where is it believed that the earliest people evolved?
A
Great Rift Valle
14
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What comes in and mashes with the Great Lakes?
A
Western Rift
15
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What is lake Victoria?
A
Biggest in Africa
2nd to Lake Superior
Headquarters to the Nile
16
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What is Lake Tanganyika?
A
Longest fresh water lake in the world
2nd deepest lake in the world
Lake Baikalis is the headquarters
17
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What is lake Malahri?
A
Very dangerous
18
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What is lake Chad?
A
Evaporating
No outlet to the sea
Not very deep
19
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What are the two mountain peeks?
A
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Mt. Kenya
20
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Where is it believed that the earliest people evolved?
A
Great Rift Valle
21
Q
What comes in and mashes with the Great Lakes?
A
Western Rift
22
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What is lake Victoria?
A
Biggest in Africa
2nd to Lake Superior
Headquarters to the Nile
23
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What is Lake Tanganyika?
A
Longest fresh water lake in the world
2nd deepest lake in the world
Lake Baikalis is the headquarters
24
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What is lake Malahri?
A
Very dangerous
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What is lake Chad?
Evaporating
No outlet to the sea
Not very deep
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What is the longest river in the world?
Nile
27
What is the Zaire river?
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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What is the Niger River?
Empties into gulf of Guriea
| Forms a delta over 200 miles
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What is the Zambesi River?
Flows into Indian Ocean
30
What is Victoria Falls?
Located in the Zambesi River
Twice the height of Niagra falls
"Smoke that Thunders"
31
What is the Kariba Resovor?
Man made
| Bigger than the state of Rhode Island
32
Low lands are... (Climate)
Hot and humid
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Highlands are... (Climate)
More comfortable
34
The further away from the equator, the ________ _______ ________ you get. (Think Climate)
Less rainfall
35
What can change the amount of rainfall one receives?
Wind
Altitude
Ocean Currents
36
What area receives the most rainfall?
Where the Slope faces (West)
37
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
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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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What is the Savanna? What are the 2 areas?
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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What is the steppe?
10-20 inches of rain
| Farming is Risky
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What is the desert?
Less that 10 inches or rain
3 areas:
Sahara
Namib
Kalahari
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What does Sahara mean?
Wilderness
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What/ where is the Namib Desert?
Coastal desert
| Atlantic side
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What is the humid subtropic?
Southeastern part
Weather is like Florida and Georgia
40-60 inches of rainfall
Rains once a month
44
What is Mediterranean climate?
Southwestern part
Good for human life and crops
Warm, dry summers
Cool winter
45
What is veldt?
Republic of South Africa
| Dutch came from here
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Why does Africa lack fertile soil?
Leaching
Water erosion
Rapid decay of plants
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What is leeching?
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
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What is water erosion?
Water displaces the top soil and moves it forming a mud puddle
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What is the rapid decay of plants?
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
_______ ________ has 200 species of fish living in it.
Lake Maloy
51
Why do the Africans not eat fish?
It spoils quickly
Most garners are herders
Lack of places to fish
52
How did they encourage eating fish in Africa and what is the process?
Farm fishing
In Nigeria and Uganda
Pond fed fish while growing rice in the same pond
53
What/ where is Walvis Bay?
Southwest Africa
Leading fishing port
Process fish that people do eat and make them animal food or fertilizer
54
Why has animal life decreased?
Human emproachment
Poaching
Hunting
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What is Kruger national park?
Hunter reservation
Southwest Africa
Biggest in world
56
What trees produce rich woods?
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Mahogany
Walnut
Rosewood
Black wood
Ebbenay
Teak
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57
Why does Africa only supply 4% of the worlds lumber?
Trees grow slowly
Not enough money for electricity
Located far from transportation centers
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Where does most lumber come from?
The west
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Why does Africa produce only 10% of the worlds water?
Little need except for mines
Too little money to afford electricity
Best source of hydro-electricity are in remote places
60
What is the number 1 and number 2 River in contributing water?
Zaire
| Zambei
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What does Africa lack?
Coal and oil
62
What is cooper?
King
63
Where are 70% of two worlds demands from?
Kimberly
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Where is 60% of the worlds gold from?
Johannesburg
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What does Africa have large amounts of? (Think mineral wealth)
Platinum and uranium
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What is Beryllium?
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Light
Strong
Hold strength at high temp
Used for rockets and jets
Zyer and Uganda
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What is colbot?
Does not rust
Used as an aole; machine tools, rockets, jest engines
Zyer and Zambia
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What is columbium?
Used as an aloe; stainless steel
| Nigeria
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What is tantalum?
Blue colored
Resists acid in high temps
Used in power plants
Produced in Nigeria
70
What are the four other important minerals?
Manganese
Ghana
Bauxite
Guinea
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Why do we not know Africa's true population?
Transportation is poor
Locals do not trust government officials
Don't have money to take census
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What are the three major groups?
Caucasiasoids
Negroids
Mongoloids
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What are Africa's four Great Lakes?
Lake Victoria
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Malahri
Lake Chad
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What are the Hamites?
Lighter skin
Intermarriage
Medium height
Eutheopua and Somalia
75
What are the Europeans?
Primary African takers
76
Where are the Asians from and where do they live?
Indian Pakistan
| Live on east coast
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What/where are the Semites?
Live on islands of Zanzahabaf and some cities along the east coast
78
What are the four major languages and where do they originate from?
Zulu- South Africa
Swahili- East Africa
Hausa- West Africa
Bantus- Central and Southern Africa (speak Bantu)
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In most cases, what is the official language of the land?
That of the original conquers
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What are tribes made up of?
People from the same ancestors
81
What are the three major tribes?
Gana
Mali
Songhigh
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Why have tribes been loosening?
People have been moving to cities
83
What was bride wealth marriage?
Arranged by parent
| Dowary system
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What is Africa's nickname?
Tropical continent
85
What is the dowary system?
Husband must pay father for the daughter
Form of insurance to make sure the bride is treated well
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What is polygamy?
One husband with numerous wives
88
__________ Africans ___________ polygomy marriages
Many
| Support
89
What is the most important reason for children?
Help in house and on farm
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What happens when a woman's husband dies?
The husbands brother steps in which benefits both
91
What causes the most problems with pologomy marriages?
Treatment of children
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What is animism?
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
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What is a fetish and who uses it?
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
What is Islam?
Founded by Mohammad
Spread to Africa in the 1600's
Mostly in Western Africa
95
What is Christianity?
Africa's oldest religion
Live in Ethiopia
Coptic church
Christian missionaries came over in the 1600's
96
What is Hinduism?
Came with workers from India and Pakistan to work for British in the 1800's
97
What are the three sculptors?
Bronzes of Benin
Heads of Ife
Mok Terra Kata
98
What were the styles of music?
Drums
Jazz
Gospel
Rhythm
Blues
99
What were the two types of writing about?
1
Prejudice and discrimination
2
Loss of traditional values and customs
100
What two authors wrote about prejudice and discrimination and what was their book called?
Albert Luthuli
Let My People Go
Kenith Kaunda
Zambia Shall Be Free
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Who wrote about The loss of traditional values and customs and what was his book called?
Zeke Mphahlele
| Down second avenue
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What happened in the northeastern corner?
The earliest people came out of there .
It became a travel and trade route.
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Where/what is the Kalahati Desert?
East of Nambi
Semi-desert
Little rain but most out of the three
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What is Africa filled with today and what does it mean?
Contrasts
One foot in the past and one in the future
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What is the land bridge out?
Northeastern corner
