Topic 15 Africa Test Review

The population of the continent of Africa is distributed evenly across the 5 Climate zones.

• True
• False

Africa's savannas

• cover only 10 percent of the land
• are good for raising herds of animals
• are good for growing yams
• are cool and rainy

This African zone produces a surplus of crops

• Rain forests
• Savannas
• The Mediterranean
• Deserts

Areas of high and mostly flat land that cover most of Africa

• Great Rift Valley
• plateau
• savanna
• Congo Basin

Traditional storytellers

• griots
• clans
• Swahili
• plateaus

A blend of Muslim and Arab cultures; came to be known as both the culture and language of East Africa's coast

• griots
• extended family
• matrilineal
• Swahili

A family made up of several generations.

• matrilineal
• clan
• extended family
• lineage group

Tracing family descent through mothers rather than fathers

• matrilineal
• clan
• extended family
• lineage group

Stories passed down verbally from generation to generation

• griots
• extended families
• oral history
• matrilineal

According to the map, in what area were the salt mines concentrated?

• in the Sahara
• along the Atlantic coast and Gulf of Guinea
• in the area around lake Chad
• along the Senegal and Niger Rivers