Culture Vocabulary
What term describes the beliefs, customs, arts, and way of life shared by a group of people?
What is Culture?
What is the system of money used in a particular country?
What is Currency?
What is the world’s largest hot desert, covering most of Northern Africa?
What is the Sahara Desert?
What valuable resource is found in Southern and Central Africa?
What are Diamonds?
What is the term for leaving one’s country to live in another?
What is Emigration?
What is a reason that attracts people to a new place, such as better opportunities?
What is a Pull Factor?
What is the total value of goods and services produced in a country in one year called?
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
Name the world’s longest river that flows northward into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
What is a major agricultural product produced in East Africa?
What is Coffee?
What are reasons that drive people away from a place, such as war or lack of jobs?
What are Push Factors?
What term refers to the movement of people from one place to another?
What is Migration?
What do we call a country with a strong economy and high standard of living?
What is a Developed Country?
What term describes rolling grasslands and scattered trees and shrubs?
What is Savanna?
Which resource is significant for global energy markets and is found in North Africa?
What is Crude Oil?
What historic migration spread language, farming, and ironworking across Africa?
What is the Bantu Migration?
What is the percentage of people in a population who can read and write called?
What is Literacy Rate?
Who is a person or entity that makes, grows, or supplies goods and services?
What is a Producer?
What is the longest lake and the second deepest in the world, located in Central Africa?
What is Lake Tanganyika?
What key mineral resource is concentrated in South, West, and East Africa?
What is Gold?
What is the movement of people from rural areas to cities called?
What is Rural to Urban Migration?
How does cultural diffusion impact societies?
What is the spread of cultural beliefs, practices, and traits from one group to another?
What defines the level of wealth, comfort, and material goods available to a population?
What is Standard of Living?
What mountain range is located in northern Africa between the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert?
What are the Atlas Mountains?
How do natural resources impact trade and economic development in Africa?
What is they fuel exports, create jobs, and attract investment?
How has modern migration reshaped African cultures?
What is through cultural exchange and the growth of new ethnic groups?