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Unit 3 Test Flashcards

1
Q

What is the universal language of trade and communication

A

Lingua Franca

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2
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What is the lingua Franca of east Africa

A

Swahili

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3
Q

What is the extreme shortage of food

A

Famine

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4
Q

What is farming for the needs of your family

A

Subsistence agriculture

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5
Q

The 3,500 mile long trench in east Africa is called

A

The great Rift Valley

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6
Q

Mosquitos are the transmitters of what

A

Malaria

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7
Q

What insect carries the disease known as the “African sleeping sickness”

A

The tsetse fly

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8
Q

What is the massive killing of people

A

Genocide

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9
Q

What is Africa’s largest lake

A

Lake Victoria

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10
Q

What are giant cliffs; makes two plateaus

A

Escarpments

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11
Q

What are open grasslands

A

Velds

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12
Q

What is the river central of Africa

A

The Congo river

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13
Q

Victoria falls is created by what river

A

The Zambezi river

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14
Q

What are the three effects of the slave trade

A

Status
Resources
Free labor

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15
Q 
Put the following in chronological order:
Apartheid 
Imperialism
Civil war in Sierra Leone 
Slave trade 
Independence
A 
Independence 
Apartheid 
Slave trade
Imperialism 
Civil war
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16
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Put the following in chronological order:
Mandela elected 
Gold and diamonds discovered 
Mandela arrested
Apartheid begins 
Apartheid ends
A 
Gold and diamond discovered 
Apartheid begins 
Mandela arrested
Apartheid ends
Mandela elected
17
Q

What are conflict or “blood” diamonds?

A

Diamonds that aren’t legally obtained or sold

18
Q

What is imperialism

A

Type of advocacy of empire

19
Q

What countries have significant amounts of oil

A

Kenya and Niger

20
Q

Which two groups had an ethnic conflict in Rwanda

A

The Hutu and Tutsi

21
Q

What worm is a parasite found in the water in sub Saharan Africa

A

The Guinea worm

22
Q

What is the separation of races in Africa

A

Apartheid

23
Q

What are penalties that other countries placed on South Africa to hurt its international trade to pressure them to end apartheid

A

Sanctions

24
Q

What was created to protest against apartheid

A

African national congress

25
Q

What is a modern example of an epidemic

A

AIDS

26
Q

What diseases are the leading causes of deaths in sub Saharan Africa

A

Malaria and Ebola

27
Q

What two countries in Africa were the only two countries in Africa that were not colonized

A

Ethiopia and Liberia

28
Q

What are the causes of desertification

A

Overgrazing, over farming, and deforestation

29
Q

The majority of population live along what two things

A

Coastlines and waterways

30
Q

What part of Africa is know for its diamond and gold extraction

A

South Africa

31
Q

People are moving to _______ areas people of the standard of living

A

Urban

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