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