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Worksheet time: 16mins
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What was South Africa’s past policy of separation of races called?
Townships
Enclave
Sanctions
Apartheid
People that travel across the Sahara Desert believe that the best choice for clothing is:
a loose, long robe with long sleeves
shorts and a tank top
a heavy jacket
blue jeans and a sweatshirt
What is the strip of dry grassland located on the southern border of the Sahara Desert?
Red Sea
Serengeti Plain
the Sahel
Atlas Mountains
Which river flows through the Sahara Desert from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea? It is the longest river in Africa.
Mississippi River
Niger River
Amazon River
Nile River
A country that accepts many cultures instead of just one is a:
Multicultural Nation
Constitutional Monarchy
Free Enterprise Economy
Culture Region
Where and when did the Industrial Revolution start?
In Africa 500BC
In America 1999
In Europe in the 1700's
In Africa in the 1700's
At the Berlin Conference, there were 14 European nations present. Who was not consulted?
Americans
The Scientists and Missionaries
The German Embassador
Representative from Africa
During the 1800s, European nations began to compete for the control of Africa. Each nation wanted the biggest or richest colonies for its own use. Why were the Europeans so interested in Africa?
because African cultures were diverse, and Europeans wanted to learn about them
because of the new medicine they found in Africa
because Africa had many natural resources like coal and oil
because the Mediterranean Sea was too large
What large valley stretches from the Red Sea to the country of Mozambique and was created by shifting tectonic plates?
Nile River Valley
Great Rift Valley
Congo Basin
Ethiopia Highlands
A person who lives as a subsistence farmer will:
Grow a crop of subsist beans
Trade additional crops for animals
Sell crops at markets to earn money for profit
Grow crops only for eating
Plants that are grown to be sold for profit at markets are called:
Africa
Cash Crops
Subsistance Farming
Irrigation
Which conditions most directly affect the Sahel’s ability to produce cash crops?
The rainy season floods the farmland, so the crops will not grow.
Desertification is turning farmland into soil that cannot be used for crops.
The Nile River does not cross the Sahel.
Many farmers cook with coal and the smoke from the ovens causes crops to die.
Geographically, the Sahel is located:
In the Kalahari Desert
On the southern boarder of the Sahara desert
In the area surrounding the Niger River delta
Along the border between Morocco and Algeria
What large island off the southeastern coast of Africa used to be physical attached to the continent hundreds of thousands of years ago?
Madagasccar
Zanzibar
Indian Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
What is the largest desert in the world, located in northern Africa
Mojave Desert
Sahara Desert
Kalahari Desert
Egyptian Desert
Apartheid was a law in the country of South Africa that
Prohibited marriages between people of different races
Separated whites and nonwhites
Made individuals register with the government based on their race
All the Above
People that travel across the Sahara Desert believed the best choice for clothing is
a loose long robe with long sleeves
shorts and a tank top
a heavy jacket
bluejeans and a sweatshirt
Nelson Mandela is an important figure in contemporary politics because
He helped resolve the civil war and end genocide in Rwanda
was the first man to travel across the Sahara Desert
he helped end apartheid in South Africa
He promoted discrimination against Christians in Sudan
If you were traveling in the Sahara Desert, which option would be the most effective mode of transportation
long distance running
riding a camel as part of a caravan
sand boarding
walking until you find an oasis
What is a long period of time without rain called
rainless
drought
a dry period of time
desertification
A person who does social work in different countries is called
A Traveling man
a Sahel
A Missionary
Nelson Mandela
The process where land can be farmed or lived on turns into desert is called
Savanna
Dust bowl
Desertification
Cash Crop
The belief that one race is inferior to another
Missionary
Apartheid
Divirsity
Racism
