Government Instability in Africa
Is this sentence describing democracy or autocracy?: Citizens have many opportunities to participate in government.
DEMOCRACY
It is difficult to grow crops in much of inland Africa MAINLY because of the region's lack of
WATER
______ is a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
EPIDEMIC
What kind of group has a shared history, common ancestry, language, religion, traditions, beliefs, holidays, food, etc. *
ETHNIC GROUP
The 19th century was a time of _________________________ in Europe
* NOT, Imperialism
Industrialization
__________ is the discrepancy in opportunities, status, attitudes, etc., between men and women.
Gender Gap
Extensive commercial logging, the use of wood for cooking and heating, and excessive clearing of land by subsistence farmers has led to __________________ in most areas of Sub-Saharan Africa.
DEFORESTATION
Are Bantu, Arab, Ashanti and Swahili religious or ethnic groups
ETHNIC GROUPS
Where do most Arab people live?
Northern Africa
The end of the 19th century is called the “Age of Imperialism” because that is when European countries competed for ___________________________ throughout Asia and Africa
LAND & POWER
True or False: In contrast to Kenya & Nigeria, the democracy of South Africa is much stronger.
TRUE
Over farming and overgrazing farmlands have been a major influence in which destructive process?
Desertification
In many places in Africa, drinking water is so far away from people's homes that they have to walk for hours every day to get water. Because of this, what happens?
Most girls cannot go to school
The major dialect of the Ashanti language is called
‘Asante’, or ‘Twi’
(Either or is correct)
A “strong” country was supposed to have ________________________ to increase its wealth and importance around the world
Many Colonies
South Africa is a parliamentary democracy, in which the chief executive (president) is elected By
Parliament
"It is very hard for me to farm here due to overgrazing and poor soil. My farm land is slowly becoming a desert." The quote is best describing which region?
SAHEL
How does industry hurt African nations?
Water is polluted by industrial run-off
The _____ people mostly inhabit a narrow strip of land along the southern coast of East Africa (in Kenya, Tanzania, & Mozambique).
Swahili
is the social & political party of racial discrimination & segregation *
APARTHIED
Kenya & Nigeria are presidential democracies in which the citizens are responsible for electing the
President & Legislature
What could the government do to help prevent desertification?
Teach farmers better farming techniques
What YEAR did Nelson Mandela & F.W. de Klerk win the Nobel Peace Prize?
1993
________ make up about two-thirds of Africa’s population and cover the southern half of the continent
Bantu
Imperialism is a system where a strong country takes ______________________ and raw materials from another D. a weak country tries to take over another country's wealth
WEALTH