24/25- Sub Saharan Africa Test Review

The Suez Canal made traveling easier by connecting the ______ and the _____.

• Red Sea, Persian Gulf

• Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea

• Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea

• Red Sea, Nile River

The process by which agricultural land is turned into desert.

• Arable

• Tribute

• Impact

• Desertification

The illustration shows -

• Terrace farming

• Deforestation

• Desertification

• A sand storm

If a country's life expectancy is only 61, that could mean

• They don't have quality healthcare

• There are too many hospitals

• Medications are given too freely

• Babies are being born

Illegal hunting is called -

• poached eggs.

• poaching.

• globalization

• taxidermy

Which of these are causes of famine?

• War

• Drought

• Fast growing populations

• All of the above

What has lead to endangered animals in Africa?

• Desertification and poaching

• The government allows for open hunting of animals that are destructive

• Hunting animals isn't a profitable business

• Laws of stopped the poaching of animals

Which of the following best describes desertification?

• A naturally occurring event due to continual droughts

• Both natural and a man made activity caused by lack of precipitation and continual overuse of the land and its resources

• Is man made but the impact on Earth is very limited

• Is permanent and nothing can be done to prevent the causes or effects

Increase in school enrollment, decrease in Malaria, decrease in infant mortality, and a higher standard of living in Sub-Saharan Africa are contributed to -

• improved economic conditions

• more dictatorships

• decrease in health care

• more people moving to rural areas

What were the main reasons for colonizing Africa?

• Gold

• Diamonds

• Oil/Petroleum

• All of the Above