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Test/EOC Knowledge
100
It would be no shock at all to see a person of this religion in North Africa because it is the most commonly practiced in the region.
What is Islam?
100
Because of this natural resource, 90% of Egypt's population lives concentrated in this place.
What is the Nile River and/or Nile River Delta
100
Small amounts of water that "hide out" in the desert are known as this
What is an oasis?
100
Correct me if I'm wrong, but... Aren't gold and diamonds found in the northern most region of North Africa?
Not northern North Africa, but West Africa.
100
Similar to the Middle East, North Africa is also facing growing desert conditions, known as...
What is desertification?
200
A tourist might be shocked to get bit by a mosquito and end up catching this deadly disease.
What is malaria?
200
Because of access to water and a cooler climate, most of North Africa's population lives along...
What is the Mediterranean Coast?
200
This disease "hides out" in a person's immune system, until they become too weak to fight off any germs
What is HIV/AIDS?
200
Correct me if I'm wrong, but... Don't the Saharan nomads mostly trade sugar cane?
Not sugar cane, but salt
200
Due to its shape and location, this country is also known as the Horn of Africa.
What is Somalia?
300
A visitor might be shocked to visit North Africa and hear the people speaking this family of languages, instead of the official Arabic language.
What are European languages?
300
The presence of this ethnicity in North Africa is a result of Africa and the Middle East sharing borders.
What is the Arab ethnicity?
300
This jewelry company liked "hiding out" in Sierra Leone to take advantage of the cheap prices on blood diamonds
What is DeBeers?
300
Correct me if I'm wrong, but... Didn't the Europeans say they were really colonizing Africa to spread education and civil rights?
Not education or civil rights, but culture and Christianity.
300
Which of the following terms does NOT describe a current social problem in Africa? HIV/AIDS, Poverty, Low birth rates, Starvation, Cultural conflicts
What is low birth rates?
400
Shocked by the tragedies cause by the blood diamond trade, a human rights group started this in order to keep those diamonds off the market.
What is the Kimberly Process?
400
This is the term describing the effect of the Atlas Mountains blocking rain.
What is the rain shadow effect?
400
This disease likes to "hide out" in contaminated drinking water
What is cholera?
400
Correct me if I'm wrong, but... Aren't Egypt's two major crops beans and bananas?
Not beans and bananas, but rice and cotton.
400
This climate has a hot, dry summer and a cool, rainy winter.
What is the Mediterranean Climate?
500
The tribes and ethnic groups of Africa were certainly shocked when this meeting in Europe re-drew the borders for countries on the African continent.
What is the Berlin Conference?
500
Because of greed and selfish ambition, this group overtook Sierra Leone's diamond mines.
What is the R.U.F.?
500
Early European traders were "hiding out" in this country, setting up trading posts to buy and sell gold.
What is Ghana, also called the Gold Coast?
500
Correct me if I'm wrong, but... Didn't Europeans really start colonizing Africa during the Renaissance?
Not Renaissance, but Industrial Revolution.
500
Cultural conflicts and unstable governments in Africa can mostly be blamed on this...
What is the European colonization of Africa a.k.a. The Scramble for Africa?