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WorksheetsAfrica CIA Review
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 55mins
Which of the following images shows where the tropical rainforest is in Africa?
Which of the following images shows where the Sahara Desert is in Africa?
Which of the following images shows where the Kalahari Desert is in Africa?
Which of the following images shows where the Savannas are in Africa?
What is the largest hot desert in the world?
The Kalahari Desert
The Namib Desert
The Mojave Desert
The Sahara Desert
Which letter shows Egypt?
A
B
C
D
Which letter shows Kenya?
A
B
C
D
Which letter shows the DRC?
A
B
C
D
Which letter shows the South Africa?
A
B
C
D
What are the causes of deforestation?
Timber industry
Needing farm land
Population growth
Growing cities
What are the causes of desertification?
Wind
Deforestation --> Flooding --> Erosion
Drought
Poor Farming Practices (slash and burn)
What are the effects of deforestation?
Desertification (due to erosion)
Loss of habitat
Shrinking rainforest
Sahel
What are the effects of desertification?
Deforestation (need for more farmland)
Less land for farming
Less food
People move to cities
What geographical region of Africa is most affected by desertification?
Sahara Desert
Sahel
Tropical Rainforest
Can you choose to be part of an ethnic group?
Yes
No
Can you choose to be part of a religion?
Yes
No
Which ethnic group migrated to North Africa to trade?
Bantu
Ashanti
Arab
Swahili
Is Islam a religion that is present in Africa?
Yes
No
What religion did the Arabs spread in North Africa?
Hinduism
Traditional African
Christianity
Islam
What are the African ethnic groups that we talked about?
Ashanti
Arab
Bantu
Swahili
What were the African religious groups that we talked about?
Christianity
Islam
Traditional African
Hinduism
What religion do the Ashanti people practice?
Traditional / Animism
Christianity
Both Christianity and Islam with aspects of Traditional religion
Islam
What religion do most Arab people practice?
Traditional / Animism
Christianity
Both Christianity and Islam with aspects of Traditional religion
Islam
What religion do the Bantu people practice?
Traditional / Animism
Christianity
Both Christianity and Islam with aspects of Traditional religion
Islam
What religion do most Swahili people practice?
Traditional / Animism
Christianity
Both Christianity and Islam with aspects of Traditional religion
Islam
Which branch makes laws in a parliamentary democracy?
Legislative
Judicial
Executive
Which branch makes laws in a presidential democracy?
Legislative
Judicial
Executive
What governmental system has their legislature choose the head of government?
Presidential Democracy
Parliamentary Democracy
Presidential Autocracy
Parliamentary Autocracy
What is literacy rate?
The percentage of people that can read and write at a basic level in that country.
The kinds of tools you use to make other things (factories, machinery).
People with jobs.
Investing in formal education and job training.
What can you tell about a country by it's literacy rate?
How good the president of the country is.
What the GDP of the country will be.
What geographical features are present in the country.
The level of education and skills training the people have.
What is one way to increase the skill level of human capital?
Increasing Lifespan
Decreasing Lifespan
Increasing Literacy Rate
Decreasing Literacy Rate
Are natural resources spread (distributed) equally across Africa?
Yes
No
What does an increasing literacy rate do to GDP?
Increases GDP
Decreases GDP
GDP Stays the Same
Which of the following includes increases in GDP, investments in education, and investments in healthcare?
Gross Domestic Product
Free Trade
Capital Goods Investments
Human Capital Investments
What is an Embargo?
A refusal to trade with a specific country.
A requirement to do a certain amount of trade with another country.
A tax placed on trade with a specific country.
Another country forcefully preventing a country from doing trade.
What is a tariff?
The percentage of people who can read and write at a basic level.
A tax on imported goods.
A refusal to trade with another country.
A limit on imports.
What is a quota?
The percentage of people who can read and write at a basic level.
A tax on imported goods.
A refusal to trade with another country.
A limit on imports.
What was Nelson Mandela most known for?
Being the president to continue apartheid laws.
Helping to end apartheid in South Africa.
Being the first black president of South Africa.
Being a leader in the civil rights movement in South Africa.
What did apartheid policy do?
Encourage emigration to South Africa.
Make black South Africans superior to white South Africans.
Deprive black South Africans of basic rights and separate black and white South Africans.
Ensure black South Africans participated in government.
What were F.W. De Klerk's main contributions to South Africa?
He kept all political prisoners captive and continued apartheid policy.
He removed the ban on the ANC.
He continued apartheid policy.
He released all political prisoners and ended apartheid.
What is it called when you have love and pride for your country?
Increased Literacy Rate
Poverty
Nationalism
Economic Growth
What did nationalism lead to in many African countries?
A movement to unite all Africans.
A way to exchange currencies.
Independence from European colonization.
A love and pride for your country.
What is currency?
Gold
Money
A Natural Resource
Emeralds
What is foreign exchange?
How much your country's money is worth in another country.
Money
Exchanging your country's money for another country's.
A Natural Resource
Why is foreign exchange necessary?
All countries use different currencies.
Gold has to be able to be traded between countries.
Each country's money is worth a different amount.
You have to be able to exchange currency fairly.
What is the exchange rate?
How much your country's money is worth in another country.
Money
Exchanging your country's money for another country's.
A Natural Resource
What was the Pan-African Movement?
A call for Jews to have a homeland in Israel.
A series of laws that stripped the civil rights of non-white people.
A call for unity among Africans and people of African descent to work together to help Africa.
A cultural revolution.
What happened at the Berlin Conference?
European countries divided up Africa to prevent fighting among the Europeans.
European countries caused conflict in Africa.
Arab countries divided up Africa.
European countries decided artificial borders for African countries.
How many European countries attended the Berlin Conference?
(a)
How many African groups were represented at the Berlin Conference?
(a)
How did European countries decide to draw the African borders at the Berlin Conference? And what did those new borders do?
Based on the preferences of the African people who were already living there.
Based on the natural resources that they wanted.
Honored the borders that the African people already used.
Pushed ethnic groups together, causing conflict.
All of the following are what? Human waste, agricultural runoff, industry waste.
Causes of water pollution
Causes of air pollution
Effects of water pollution
Effects of air pollution
All of the following are what? Increases in water transmitted sickness, less trade, the pollution of fishing, a lack of safe drinking water, and a lack of farming water.
Effects of air pollution
Effects of water pollution
Causes of water pollution
Causes of air pollution
What is irrigation?
Making a sacrifice to a rain god.
Rainfall.
Getting a supply of water where it is needed.
Using a hose to water plants.
Why is education for girls different from boys in most of Africa?
