Africa Test Review (test is Wed)

To settle in another country and take political control of it (e.g. Great Britain taking control of South Africa)

• democracy

• Jim Crow

• colonization

• apartheid

Someone who starts their own small business is called

• informal economy

• business executive

• microentrepreneur

• CEO

Most businesses in Africa are part of the

• formal economy

• large corporations

• global stock exchange

• informal economy

What is gender-based division of labor?

• When the division of labor is based on gender roles (men and women have different tasks)

• When the division of labor is based on preferred tasks (everyone does what they want to do when they grow up)

Which of the following do you think is a benefit of having women micro-entrepreneurs in a community?

• Women hire more workers.

• Women can afford to send their children to school.

• Women can afford to cover their families' basic needs.

• All of the above

Which best describes the Sahel?

• semi-arid

• tropical grasslands

• tropical rainforest

• complete desert

What is the term for land that becomes increasingly dry?

• climate change

• prairie

• arid

• desertification

What type of land use is most important for Congo?

• mining

• agriculture

• industrial

• forestry

What is the objective of the Great Green Wall?

• all the answers are correct

• to combat climate change

• to employ women to plant trees

• to make the land in the Sahel cultivable

Why does South Africa have the highest standard of living in Africa?

• Nelson Mandela

• was never colonized

• rainforest

• abundance of natural resources (gold, diamonds, silver, farmland)