WorksheetsWorld Geo UNIT 8 Review
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 32mins
Rural areas are defined as having...
Few people and a large amount of open land
Large amounts of people and a large amount of open land
Few people and very little open land
Large amounts of people and very little open land
The continued influence of tribal or ethnic groups in many African countries is an example of Africa's...
colonial legacy
traditional cultural persistence
modern industrialization
history of forced slavery
The nineteenth-century European imperialist practices that sought to control Africa's supply of rich natural resources and raw materials are known as...
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Decolonization
Structural Adjustment
The Scramble for Africa
One of the results of the 1884 Berlin Conference that has caused continued conflict in Africa is...
Suppression of traditional religions
International control of national finances
Arbitrary national borders
Militarized conflict over oil reserves
Most Sub-Saharan African agriculture can be classified as...
Industrialized agriculture
commercial agriculture
subsistence agriculture
cottage industry agriculture
What is one of the main reasons many people are moving from rural to urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa?
declining agricultural productivity in rural areas
increasing industrial opportunities in rural areas
increasing service industry opportunities in rural areas
declining traditional cultural life in rural areas
What informational tool can geographers use to indicate changes in migration, birth, and death levels?
political maps
Human Development Index
topographic maps
population pyramids
Which geographic feature is NOT present in North Africa
the Ivory Coast
the Nile River
the Atlas Mountains
the city of Casablanca
Which geographic feature is NOT present in Southern Africa?
a large Zulu populaiton
policy of apartheid
home of Nelson Mandela
the Congo River
Which geographic feature is NOT present in East Africa
Horn of Africa
Kalahari Desert
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Lake Victoria
Which geographic feature is NOT present in West Africa?
the Niger river
the city of Monrovia
the Serengeti plain
Lake Volta
Which desert creates a major north-south divide between populations of the African continent?
the Namib desert
the Kalahari desert
the Niyiri desert
the Sahara desert
The area south of the Sahara desert that is seeing a desertification process largely due to climate change is called...
the Sahel
the Serengeti
the Congo forest
the Great Rift valley
Most of the continent of Africa lies in the tropical zone between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
What are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
lines of latitude
lines of longitude
tectonic plate boundaries
biomes
Which of the following languages would be considered a 'colonial language' for the country of Burkina Faso?
Dyula
Mossi
French
Bobo
Many Africans today are Muslim, Christian, or another major world religion. While religion can influence all aspects of life, it is typically considered a _____________ characteristic of people.
economic
political
linguistic
cultural
