World Geo UNIT 8 Review

Rural areas are defined as having...

• Few people and a large amount of open land

• Large amounts of people and a large amount of open land

• Few people and very little open land

• Large amounts of people and very little open land

The continued influence of tribal or ethnic groups in many African countries is an example of Africa's...

• colonial legacy

• traditional cultural persistence

• modern industrialization

• history of forced slavery

The nineteenth-century European imperialist practices that sought to control Africa's supply of rich natural resources and raw materials are known as...

• The Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Decolonization

• Structural Adjustment

• The Scramble for Africa

One of the results of the 1884 Berlin Conference that has caused continued conflict in Africa is...

• Suppression of traditional religions

• International control of national finances

• Arbitrary national borders

• Militarized conflict over oil reserves

Most Sub-Saharan African agriculture can be classified as...

• Industrialized agriculture

• commercial agriculture

• subsistence agriculture

• cottage industry agriculture

What is one of the main reasons many people are moving from rural to urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa?

• declining agricultural productivity in rural areas

• increasing industrial opportunities in rural areas

• increasing service industry opportunities in rural areas

• declining traditional cultural life in rural areas

What informational tool can geographers use to indicate changes in migration, birth, and death levels?

• political maps

• Human Development Index

• topographic maps

• population pyramids

Which geographic feature is NOT present in North Africa

• the Ivory Coast

• the Nile River

• the Atlas Mountains

• the city of Casablanca

Which geographic feature is NOT present in Southern Africa?

• a large Zulu populaiton

• policy of apartheid

• home of Nelson Mandela

• the Congo River

Which geographic feature is NOT present in East Africa

• Horn of Africa

• Kalahari Desert

• Mt. Kilimanjaro

• Lake Victoria