Chapter 24: Southern Africa

Read the FALSE statement. Replace the underlined word with one that makes the sentence TRUE.

The Drakensberg Mountains separate Zimbabwe and Mozambique

• Inyanga

• Kalahar

• Madagascar

• Okavango

• veld

Read the FALSE statement. Replace the underlined word with one that makes the sentence TRUE.

Water from the Limpopo River flows from Angola into a huge basin in Botswana.

• Inyanga

• Kalahar

• Madagascar

• Okavango

• veld

Read the FALSE statement. Replace the underlined word with one that makes the sentence TRUE.

The open grasslands of South Africa are known as the escarpment.

• Inyanga

• Kalahar

• Madagascar

• Okavango

• veld

Read the FALSE statement. Replace the underlined word with one that makes the sentence TRUE.

The wettest area in the region is the east coast of Zimbabwe.

• Inyanga

• Kalahar

• Madagascar

• Okavango

• veld

Read the FALSE statement. Replace the underlined word with one that makes the sentence TRUE.

Ancient streams crossing the Namib Desert have drained into low, flat areas called pans.

• Inyanga

• Kalahar

• Madagascar

• Okavango

• veld

Which group migrated to Southern Africa about 2,000 years ago?

• the Boers

• the Afrikaners

• the Bantu

• the Swahili

The Shona are best known for their stonewalled capital, called

• the Cape of Good Hope.

• Madagascar.

• Nambia.

• Great Zimbabwe.

The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in the region in

• 1492.

• 1652.

• 1852.

• 1912.

Dutch, French, and German settlers and their descendants in South Africa were called

• Zulu.

• Khoisan.

• Afrikaners

• Tswana.

South Africa’s government set up a policy that separated races into four groups. This policy was called

• apartheid

• the ANC

• colonialism.

• townships.