Ch. 13-Sub-Saharan Africa

Countries with natural resources have the greatest economic wealth

• True
• False

Swahili is widely spoken because it is descended from the Bantu languages

• True

• False

The slave trade happened because...

• slaves were better at growing cotton and sugar
• plantation owners felt slaves were better workers
• it was extremely simple to ship slaves across the Atlantic ocean
• plantation owners made lots of money

What was the goal of Pan-Africanism?

• to help African leaders living in cities around the world
• to help the economies of all African countries
• to encourage unity among every African citizen
• to support colonial powers in Africa

A savanna is a desert

• true
• false

Plate tectonics created _______in the Great Rift Valley

• rivers
• deserts
• volcanoes
• grasslands

Deforestation alters land through the action of humans

• true
• false

Why does Southern Africa have the highest standard of living in Sub-Saharan Africa?

• the countries have a lot of resources
• the countries have different wildlife
• the countries have fertile soil
• the countries have big navigable rivers

The Sahel lies between what 2 regions?

• grasslands and steppes
• grasslands and desert
• valleys and basins
• desert and steppes

The movement of tectonic plates created the ...

• Congo River
• Great Escarpment
• Great Rift Valley
• Kalahari Desert