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Africa's Geography Unit Check

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a community of people sharing a common culture, ancestry, customs, and language known as?
a)
Ethnic Group
b)
Religious Group
c)
Gender Group
d)
Family Unit Group
2.
What do members of a religious group have in common?
a)
customs, culture, language
b)
ancestry only 
c)
belief in the same god(s)
d)
love of nature and spirits
3.
What religion did Arab traders bring with them to Africa?
a)
Judaism
b)
Islam
c)
Christianity 
d)
Shintoism 
4.
Most African languages can be traced to which ethnic group?
a)
Ashanti
b)
Bantu
c)
Jewish 
d)
Arab
5.
Where do most Ashanti live?
a)
South Africa
b)
The Horn of Africa
c)
The Sahara 
d)
Ghana and the Ivory Coast
6.
About how many people in Africa today are part of the Bantu culture?
a)
Five Hundred Thousand
b)
One Billion
c)
Seventy Million 
d)
Seven Hundred and Eighty Thousand
7.
Which ethnic group has a sacred "Golden Stool"?
a)
Ashanti 
b)
Arab
c)
Bantu
d)
Swahili 
8.
The majority of the Swahili people practice which religion?
a)
Christianity 
b)
Judaism
c)
Buddhism 
d)
Islam
9.
The Swahili language has ties to what other languages? 
a)
Bantu and Arabic 
b)
English and German 
c)
French and Bantu 
d)
South Africanese and Dutch 
10.

Cause of desertification

a)

overgrazing, drought, clearing land for farms

b)

logging industry, fishing industry, farming industry

c)

human waste, animal waste, lack of sanitation systems

d)

overuse of plants by the medical field

11.

Which is NOT an effect of desertification?

a)

loss of farmland

b)

growth of desert

c)

water scarcity

d)

open sewage

12.

Which are the causes of deforestation?

a)

human waste, animal waste, industrial waste

b)

overgrazing

c)

logging industry; overuse of land

d)

disease

13.

Which is an effect of deforestation?

a)

open sewage and water issues

b)

loss of animal and plant species

c)

surplus of water

d)

sanitation systems

14.

Which is NOT a cause of water pollution?

a)

logging industry

b)

trash

c)

human waste

d)

animal waste

15.

Which is the main concern with how polluted water effects people?

a)

disease/death

b)

prevents movement

c)

lack of vaccines

d)

logging industry providing insurance

16.

Nile River

a)

Northeast Africa

b)

Northwest Africa

c)

Southwest Africa

d)

Southeast Africa

17.

Niger River

a)

North Africa

b)

West Africa

c)

East Africa

d)

South Africa

18.

Congo River

a)

North Africa

b)

South Africa

c)

Central Africa

d)

Central Asia

19.

Kalahari Desert

a)

North Africa

b)

South Africa

c)

Central Africa

d)

Northwest Africa

20.

Climate zone best capable of producing crops

a)

Sahara

b)

Sahel

c)

Savanna

d)

Tropical Rain Forest

21.

Located between the desert of North Africa and the grasslands. Semi-Arid.

a)

Sahara

b)

Sahel

c)

Savanna

d)

Tropical Rain Forest

22.

Largest hot desert in the world, north Africa

a)

Kalahari

b)

Sahara

c)

Sahel

d)

Tropical Rain Forest

23.

Dense forest with over 70 inches of rain a year.

a)

Sahara

b)

Sahel

c)

Savanna

d)

Tropical Rain Forest

24.

Moving water from one location to another to help grow crops

a)

irrelevant

b)

irrigation

c)

arable

d)

holding pond

25.

Land suitable for growing crops

a)

arid

b)

avid

c)

arranged

d)

arable

26.

In a traditional economy, how are economic decisions made?

a)

custom and habit

b)

government planners

c)

consumers and the market

d)

combination of consumers and government planners

27.

Who takes on the financial risk in starting a new business in a market economy?

a)

individual

b)

individual business people

c)

government planners

d)

combination of government planners and traditions

28.

What does the word "Swahili" mean in Arabic?

a)

forest dweller

b)

nomad wanderer

c)

one who herds animals

d)

one who lives on the coast

29.

An ethnic group

a)

Bantu

b)

Christian

c)

Animist

d)

Jew

30.

Religious Group

a)

Arab

b)

Muslim

c)

Ashanti

d)

Swahili

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