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WorksheetsAfrican Geography Quiz 2
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Why does most of Africa have a warm climate and what type of land form covers most of the continent?
a)
Because the continent lies between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn; plateau
b)
Its high elevaton; escarpment
c)
Its longitude and latitude; flat lands
d)
None of the above
2.
What is desertification and what are two causes of it?
a)
Making an area more dry; drilling for water
b)
•An
expansion of dry conditions to moist areas that are next to deserts
•
•Slash-and-burn
and overgrazing of livestock
c)
Making an entre into a desert; hunger and sweet tooth
d)
None of the above
3.
What type of biome is characterized by tropical grassland with scattered trees and alternates between rainy and dry seasons?
a)
Savannah
b)
Steppe
c)
Semi-tropical
d)
Sahel
4.
Lagoons and what type of swamps are important to the ecosystem of the West African coast because it supplies food and shelter for fish, shellfish, mollusks, wildfowl, and marine mammals?
a)
Sheltered
b)
Saltwater
c)
Mangrove
d)
Cypress
5.
In the 1880s Africa was partitioned or divided up among European countries based on what principal?
a)
effective occupation
b)
domino theory
c)
Cordon Rouge
d)
None of the above
6.
What was the purpose of the Berlin conference?
a)
divide Africa among its various ethnic groups
b)
divide Africa among European nations
c)
stop civil war in Africa
d)
Unite all of Africa against the European colonizers
7.
What was Apartheid?
a)
Corvee
b)
Peristrokia
c)
Detente
d)
segregation in South Africa based on race between 1984 and 1994
8.
Why was Nelson Mandela important to South Africa?
a)
promoted non-violent protests just like Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
opened up South Africa to European trade
c)
led a long struggle to end apartheid
d)
stopped civil war in South Africa
9.
The most spoke language in South Africa is...
a)
French
b)
Spanish
c)
English
d)
Afrikaana
10.
After World War II European nations stopped colonizing Africa. What is the name given to then end of empire building in Africa after World War II?
a)
Indigenization
b)
decolonizaton
c)
African declaraton
d)
African independence
11.
Most countries in Africa can be categorized as....
a)
Newly industrialized
b)
Less developed
c)
More developed
d)
underdeveloped
12.
What is brain drain?
a)
highly skilled workers leaving less developed countries to go to more developed countries for jobs
b)
headaches caused by lack of jobs in less developed countries
c)
less skilled workers leaving less developed countries to get an education in a more developed country
d)
None of the above
13.
This type of farming is only done to grown enough food for survival for his/her family
a)
commercial
b)
individual
c)
subsistence
d)
subsistence
14.
What is a formal region?
a)
an area with a limited number of related characteristics
b)
an area bordering another region
c)
areas grouped together because of physical geography
d)
None of the above
15.
The economic development in South Africa can best be described as......
a)
more developed
b)
newly industrialized
c)
less developed
d)
none of the above
16.
This country is changing the economy of East Africa by investing heavily in its trade, natural resources and basic infrastructure
a)
United States
b)
France
c)
China
d)
Great Britain
17.
The most common religion in Africa is,,,,,,
a)
Hundu
b)
Buddism
c)
Christianity
d)
Islam
18.
This migration contributed greatly to linguistic diffusion across the African continent
a)
Bantu migration
b)
Xer migration
c)
Middle Passge
d)
African passage
19.
This language was created as a result of transoceanic trade in the Indian Ocean
a)
Afrikaana
b)
Zulu
c)
isiafrika
d)
Kiswahili
20.
What contributed most directly to the AIDS pandemic in the country of South Africa?
a)
Apartheid
b)
Violence caused by Apartheid
c)
Labor migrancey
d)
Lack of government involvment
21.
What are push-pull factors in human migration?
a)
reasons people move somewhere
b)
reasons people leave somewhere
c)
Push
factors are reasons people want to leave and pull factors are reasons why
people want to come to a new area
d)
None of the above
22.
What group of people have historicall lived in the Forest regions near the Congo River?
a)
Kwa
b)
Aborigines
c)
Twa
d)
Hutu
23.
Examples of formal regions could include
a)
Europe
b)
The United States
c)
Southwest Asia
d)
All of the above
24.
What are perceptual regions?
a)
areas in which people see similar characteristics but may disagree on what they exactly are
b)
Areas that share similar religions
c)
Area that share similar characteristics and agree on what they are
25.
What city in the early empire of Mali was an important trading center?
a)
Timbuktu
b)
Hutu
c)
Twa
d)
Xers
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