Africa's Geography Unit Check

What is a community of people sharing a common culture, ancestry, customs, and language known as?

• Ethnic Group
• Religious Group
• Gender Group
• Family Unit Group

What do members of a religious group have in common?

• customs, culture, language
• ancestry only 
• belief in the same god(s)
• love of nature and spirits

What religion did Arab traders bring with them to Africa?

• Judaism
• Islam
• Christianity 
• Shintoism 

Most African languages can be traced to which ethnic group?

• Ashanti
• Bantu
• Jewish 
• Arab

Where do most Ashanti live?

• South Africa
• The Horn of Africa
• The Sahara 
• Ghana and the Ivory Coast

About how many people in Africa today are part of the Bantu culture?

• Five Hundred Thousand
• One Billion
• Seventy Million 
• Seven Hundred and Eighty Thousand

Which ethnic group has a sacred "Golden Stool"?

• Ashanti 
• Arab
• Bantu
• Swahili 

The majority of the Swahili people practice which religion?

• Christianity 
• Judaism
• Buddhism 
• Islam

The Swahili language has ties to what other languages? 

• Bantu and Arabic 
• English and German 
• French and Bantu 
• South Africanese and Dutch 

Cause of desertification

• overgrazing, drought, clearing land for farms

• logging industry, fishing industry, farming industry

• human waste, animal waste, lack of sanitation systems

• overuse of plants by the medical field