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Africa flashcards

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Which two deserts are moving closer together?   Sahara and Kalahari  
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Language differences, political conflict, drought, famine, disease and jobs explain what?   push and pull factors  
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What's caused by wind, deforestation, overgrazing, and overfarming?   desertitfication  
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The Europeans hindered the Africans' freedom because of the slave trade and politcal freedoms. What's that called?   oppression  
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Which group of people really interfered with progress and the African people in general?   the Europeans  
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A very hot dry area can have a climate described as what?   arid  
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This extends from the Red Sea to Mozambique; it's a series of broad steep-walled valleys.   Great Rift Valley  
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The Earth's continents, before splitting.   Pangea  
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a flat grassland of Africa having few trees and shrubs; found in semi-arid and tropical regions   savanna  
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These cause people to move from one place to another - for both positive and negative reasons   push and pull factors  
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This desribes an unfounded belief that one race is inferior to another   racism  
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what do you call a policy of racial segregation that existed in South Africa for many years   apartheid  
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What term is used to describe a person who goes into a country to teach religion, to promote education and health care?   missionary  
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illegal hunting and killing of animals   poaching  
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resources which cannot be replaced quickly   non-renewable  
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the mass killing of a group of a targeted group of people   genocide  
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South Africa's first black president   Nelson Mandela  
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The years that apartheid existed in South Africa   1948-1989  
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The great movement of people throughout Africa   Bantu Migration  
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Common major language of Africa   Swahili  
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climate regions of Africa (4)   tropical, arid, equatorial, semi-arid  
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Having many different cultures and viewpoints   diverse  
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