Midterm 1 Flashcards
iName the 6 African Regions
West Africa, North Africa, East Africa, South Africa, Central Africa, and Madagascar.
What is the East African Rift system?
The Ethiopian Rift is the main one and the oldest and the Mozambique Rift is the youngest. There are several other rifts, including the Kenyan Rift, Gregory Rift, and Rukwa Rift.
Why is there so much diversity regarding African languages?
Countless episodes of population and culture fragmentation over long periods of time.
What is the oldest linguistic family in the world?
The Khoi San. They also have the fewest languages (35).
What is the youngest linguistic family in the world?
Congo.
As of 2016, what is Africa’s population?
1,225,080,510
What are the major African Rivers?
Nile, Congo, Niger, White Nile, Zambezi, Ubangi-Uele, Orange, Lualaba, Limpopo, Blue Nile, and Benue.
What are the major African Lakes?
Victoria, Nyasa, Tanganyika, Albert, Turkana, Tana, and Chad.
Why does the youngest linguistic family (Congo) have the most languages as opposed to the oldest (Khoi San)?
There is an inverse relationship between the number of languages spoken today and the age of the family to which they belong.
The Khoi San were more isolated whilst Bantu spread all across the Cone.
North Africa: Egyptians
Population: 79 million
Location: Egypt
Language Family: Semitic
North Africa: Berbers
Population: 14 million
Location: Algeria, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Niger
Language Family: Berber
North Africa: Taureg
Population: 1.2 million
Location: Mali, Niger
Language Family: Berber
North Africa: Nubians
Population: 873 000
Location: Egypt, Sudan
Language Family: Eastern Sudanic
West Africa: Fang
Population: 3.3 million
Location: Cameroon, EQ Guinea, Gabon
Language Family: Bantu
West Africa: Fulani
Population: 13 million
Location: Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal
Language Family: Atlantic
West Africa: Bambara
Population: 3 million
Location: Mali
Language Family: Mande
West Africa: Yoruba
Population: 28 million
Location: Nigeria
Language Family: Benue-Congo
West Africa: Hausa
Population: 25 million
Location: Niger, Nigeria
Language Family: Chadic
West Africa: Wolof
Population: 5.7 million
Location: Senegal
Language Family: Atlantic
West Africa: Igbo
Population: 20 million
Location: Nigeria
Language Family: Benue-Congo
Central Africa: Kongo
Population: 2.2 million
Location: DRC, Congo
Language Family: Bantu
Central Africa: Mangbetu
Population: 50 000
Location: DRC
Language Family: Central Sudanic
Central Africa: Efe, Mbuti, Sua, Aka (Pygmies)
Population: 200 000
Location: DRC
Language Family: Central Sudanic
East Africa: Kikuyu
Population: 5.3 million
Location: Kenya
Language Family: Bantu
East Africa: Somali
Population: 13 million
Location: Ethiopia, Somalia
Language Family: Cushitic
East Africa: Amhara
Population: 16 million
Location: Ethiopia
Language Family: Semitic
East Africa: Baganda
Population: 5.1 million
Location: Uganda
Language Family: Bantu
East Africa: Tutsi & Hutu
Population: 18 million
Location: Burundi, Rwanda
Language Family: Bantu
East Africa: Masai
Population: 883 000
Location: Kenya, Tanzania
Language Family: Nilotic
East Africa: Swahili
Population: 500 000
Location: Kenya, Tanzania
Language Family: Bantu
South Africa: Tswana
Population: 4.4 million
Location: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Language Family: Bantu
South Africa: San
Population: 80 000
Location: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa
Language Family: Khoisan
South Africa: Zulu
Population: 10 million
Location: South Africa
Language Family: Bantu
True or False: Africa has more native cereals than any other continent.
True.
True or False: Over the last 2000 years, farmers in Africa have been replacing their own cultivars with foreign crops.
True.
South Africa: Shona
Population: 10 million
Location: Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Language Family: Bantu
How big is Africa?
30 370 000
What countries were under British Colonial Rule?
Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Seychelles, Mauritius.
What countries were under French Colonial Rule?
Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo, Benin, Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Comoros, Madagascar, Tunisia, Dijibouti.
What countries were under Italian Colonial Rule?
Libya, Eritrea, Somalia.
What countries were under Belgian Colonial Rule?
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi.
What countries were under Portuguese Colonial Rule?
Malawi, Angola, Sao Tome and Principe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau.
What country was under German Colonial Rule?
Namibia.
What countries were under Spanish Colonial Rule?
Western Sahara and EQ Guinea.
What countries were not under colonial rule?
Ethiopia and Liberia.
How many language families are there and what are they?
Four: Khoi-San, Nilo-Saharan, Afro-Asiatic, and Kongo-Kordofanian.
How many African countries are there?
54 (and two disputed).
Why is it impossible to date the Western Branch of the East African Rift System?
There is no volcanic activity, meaning that no absolute dating can be done to determine its age.
What are the ten African plants that you should be familiar with?
Red Rice, Pearl & Finger Millet, Sorghum, Tef, Baobab, Horned Melon, Marula, Tamarind, and Watermelon.
What are cratons?
An old and stable part of the continental lithosphere; they are geological formations from Pre-Cambrian and Palaeozoic.
Cratons are composed of ancient crystalline basement rock, which may be covered by younger sedimentary rock.
Africa has five cratons - what are their names and what part of Africa are they located in?
(1) Kalahari Craton (South Africa)
(2) Tanzanian Craton (East Africa)
(3) Kasai Craton (Central Africa)
(4) West African Craton
(5) Eastern Sahara Craton (North Africa)
What are the 8 major African mountain ranges?
(1) Atlas Mountains
(2) Ahaggar Mountains
(3) Tibesti Mountains
(4) Ethiopian Highlands
(5) Mount Kilimanjaro
(6) Virunga & Rwenzori Mountains
(7) Drakensberg Mountains
(8) Cameroon Volcanic Line
____ temperatures create ___ ________ areas filled with ________ from two oceans.
high; low pressure; humidity