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100
What is leaching?
To wash nutrients out of the soil.
100
What are the most abundant natural resources?
Gold, uranium, water, & oil
100
Which Africa country has about half of the world's gold?
South Africa
100
Nelson Mandela was the first black president of which Africa country?
South Africa
100
What is the dominant religion in the Sahel region?
Islam
200
Describe subsistence farming.
A small-scale agriculture that provides primarily for the needs of a family or village.
200
What ethnic group is strongest in the Sahel?
Arabs
200
Who owns most of the commercial farms in the region?
Foreign
200
Where is the place of origin for humankind said to be located?
East Africa
200
What is apartheid?
Separation of the races on South Africa's black majority and racially mixed peoples
300
What impact does poaching have in this region?
Reduced animal populations.
300
Where do most mining profits in South Africa go?
Mismanaged by government Foreign mine owners send profits abroad
300
What causes economic imbalances in the region?
Uneven distribution of mineral resources
300
Why are so many elephants killed?
Meat, ivory, and sport
300
How many people in the world currently carrying HIV live in this region?
2/3
400
What is desertification and why is it a problem?
1. Arable land → Desert 2. ·land is depleted ·topsoil is eroded ·land loses productivity ·Loses ability to recover from drought
400
What happens to most cash crops in the region?
Processed elsewhere
400
Where is the Kalahari Desert located?
Eastern Namibia Most of Botswana Part of South Africa
400
What is universal suffrage?
Voting rights for all adult citizens
400
What do many countries in this region depend up to help them industrialize?
Foreign loans
500
How does the Great Rift Valley form?
1. Rising magma →fractures 2. Crust pulled apart | slabs of rock sink 3. Sea/lake *******Shifting tectonic plates
500
How does the language of Afrikaans came about?
Derived from early Dutch settlers in South Africa.
500
Explain the Zambezi River's journey to the ocean.
2,200 miles from its source near the Zambia-Angola border to the Indian Ocean, interrupted by waterfalls such as Victoria Falls.
500
What is happening to the tropical rainforest in the region?
Farmers are clearing the land to grow crops Commercial loggers diminish Leaching
500
A steppe is a transition zone between which two climate regions?
Tropical dry savanna and desert
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