Africa Study Guide

Fertile land becomes a desert

• Desertification

• Poaching

• Refugees

• Landlocked

One of the major issues in Africa is the trading or killing of protected wild animals for the sake of profit.

• Desertification

• Poaching

• Refugee

• Landlocked

A country that is surrounded by land on all sides and does not have access to a major waterway.

• Desertification

• Poaching

• Refugee

• Landlocked

People who have to leave their home due to war or injustice and apply for resettlement prior to entering into America

• Asylee

• Asylum

• Refugee

• Evacuee

A family of languages spoken primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. Although there is not certain exact number of these languages, estimates put the number into the hundreds.

• Latin

• Bantu

• Islam

• Indo-European

Which of the following is NOT an example of issues caused by the creation of countries in post colonial Africa?

• Genocide in Rwanda

• Tiananmen Square Incident/Tank Man

• Civil War in South Sudan

• Genocide in Darfur

A system of racial segregation that was enforced by law across South Africa for almost 50 years.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedman Laws

• Bantu Laws

• Apartheid

Which of the following was NOT an effect of apartheid laws? 

• separate homelands

• black South Africans and white South Africans worked together

• black South Africans being forced to carry pass books

• use of separate services and buildings

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet. Of the following listed, which one drains from the East African Rift to the Atlantic Ocean. It includes all or parts of ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Cameroon, Tanzania, and Zambia.

• Congo River Basin

• Chad River Basin

• Nile River Basin

• Zambezi River Basin

This physical feature dominates Northern Africa. It located in the following countries: Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Chad, Tunisia, Niger Mali, Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, and Western Sahara. It is dominated by vast areas of dunes.

• Sahara Desert

• Kalahari Desert

• Karoo Desert

• Namib