East & South Africa

The largest rift on Earth, made up of two rifts—the eastern rift and the western rift is called

• The Great Rift Valley

• The African Rift Valley

• The Victoria Rift Valley

• The Tanganyika Rift Valley

Wildlife such as elephants, giraffes, lions, and zebras can be found here in East Africa.

• Serengeti plain

• Mount Kilimanjaro

• Ethiopian highlands

• Sahara desert

What became the center of the international slave trade?

• Zanzibar

• Kenya

• Somalia

• Ethiopia

How did European nations control their colonies?

• imperialism

• colonization

• westernizing

• communism

What are the three main languages spoken in East Africa?

• Arabic, English, and Swahili

• Arabic, French, and Swahili

• French, English, and Swahili

• Arabic, English, and Amharic

What does Kenya and Tanzania rely on in their economies?

• farming and tourism

• mining and farming

• oil and farming

• oil and tourism

The steep face at the edge of a plateau or other raised area is called

• escarpment

• veld

• pans

• plateau

What was the Great Zimbabwe?

• a stone-walled capital made of huge granite boulders and stone blocks

• Name of the leader of the Shona people

• Name of the leader of the Khoisan people

• a river in Zimbabwe

The policy of racial separation set up by South Africa's government was called

• apartheid

• townships

• Afrikaners

• Boers

Economic or political penalties imposed by one country on another to force a change in policy was called

• sanctions

• enclave

• apartheid

• townships