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100
Farming just enough food to feed your family and not enough to sell for a profit.
What is subsistence farming?
100
People who have no permanent settled home and move place to place herding livestock.
What is a nomadic herder?
100
A crop produced to sell.
What is a cash crop?
100
A fertile place in a desert where there is water and vegetation
What is an oasis?
100
The way of life of people who share similar customs and beliefs.
What is culture?
200
The spread of Customs and ideas from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
200
The part of a family that includes the parents and children
What is a nuclear family?
200
A group of people who share the same ancestors, culture, language, or religion
What is an ethnic group?
200
A region of tall grasses with scattered trees.
What is a savanna?
200
The legal system of South Africa in which the rights of nonwhites were greatly restricted.
What is apartheid?
300
Name three factors that influence climate.
distance from the Equator and elevation. Nearness to large bodies of water and major landforms also affect climate.
300
Compare commercial farming and subsistence farming...how are they different?
commercial= crops are grown for profit Subsistence= crops are grown for food not to sell.
300
The four regions of Africa.
What is North Africa, East Africa, West Africa, South Central Africa?
300
An ethnic group in East Africa that resulted from mixing of African and Arab ways more than 1,000 years ago; also a language.
What Swahili?
300
Leader of the African National Congress and South Africa's first president after the apartheid ended.
What is Nelson Mandela?
400
How might the Egyptian civilization be affected if the Nile river did not flood regularly?
The civilizations may not have developed because there would be no fertile soil or ways to water crops.
400
How do Africa's major rivers affect the lives of its people?
Africans use the water from rivers for transportation, growing crops, fishing, producing electricity, and for tourism.
400
How does cultural diversity create communication challenges for Africans?
The ethnic groups speak many different languages, often making it difficult for different groups to communicate with one another.
400
Name five different elements of culture
answers may vary
500
How do climate and vegetation affect the way people live?
Answers may vary.
500
How do you think cultural beliefs shape the way people behave?
Answers may vary.
500
What physical features do all of the four regions of Africa have in common?
Mountains
500
How has North Africa's location contributed to cultural diffusion?
North Africa is on the Mediterranean Sea, not far from Europe and Asia and within reach of other parts of Africa....Answers may vary.
500
How did the apartheid government treat the people living in the country?
first class were white citizens, second class Asians, poor class were Africans.
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