Geography Ch. 6

The two groups who fought one another in the Rwandan civil war are the: -Xhosa, Yoruba -Muslims, Christians -Flemish, Walloons -Hutus, Tutsis -Rwandans, Burundians

Tourism, once a particularly important business in _____, struggles to remain viable in the face of numerous challenges: -Liberia -Kenya -Uganda -Burkina Faso -Nigeria

Southern Africa's mineral wealth is matched by its agricultural diversity. -TRUE -FALSE

Which of the following is located in the African Transition Zone? -tropical rainforests -the Kalahari Desert -the Islamic Front -the Zambezi Basin -Madagascar

The West African savanna states benefited from complementarity between the peoples of the forests and the peoples of the dry lands to the north. -TRUE -FALSE

Senegal was the anchor of France's West African empire. -TRUE -FALSE

The Yoruba are the dominant ethnic group in The Congo. -TRUE -FALSE

Which two colonial powers dominated West Africa? -Britain and France -Portugal and Spain -Germany and Britain -U.S. and France -Belgium and the Netherlands

Which of the following statements is false? -Climatically, South Africa is Africa's only true temperate-zone country. -South Africa contains significant untapped petroleum reserves. -South Africa's white population is larger than the white populations of all other Subsaharan African countries combined. -South Africa has large coal reserves. The Boers are now called the Afrikaners.

The Kalahari Desert is found in the central part of The Congo. -TRUE -FALSE

Nigeria is a major oil producer. -TRUE -FALSE

Two countries which were originally part of German East Africa, but were given to the Belgians after World War I are: -Tanzania and Kenya -Zimbabwe and Zambia -Zanzibar and Madagascar -Rwanda and Burundi -Congo and The Congo

The largest city in terms of population in Sub-Saharan Africa is? -Accra -Lagos -Cape Town -Abidjan -Nairobi

The Islamic Front is located on the northern fringes of the Sahara. -TRUE -FALSE

A local or regional outbreak of a disease is known as an epidemic. -TRUE -FALSE

Which of the following countries is not located in Southern Africa? -Botswana -Cameroon -Zimbabwe -Zambia -Moçambique

Tanzania is East Africa's largest country in territorial as well as demographic terms, but it never had minorities as large as those in Kenya or Uganda. -TRUE -FALSE

Which of the following countries was not a British colony prior to its independence? -Zimbabawe -Zambia -Kenya -Ethiopia -Malawi

Which of the following countries is not located in Equatorial Africa? -Gabon -Congo -Ivory Coast -Cameroon -Central African Republic

Sierra Leone was settled by former American slaves. -TRUE -FALSE

Periodic markets are found in the central city squares of West Africa's largest urban concentrations. -TRUE -FALSE

People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa are called: -Highveld Hollanders -Afrikaaners -Cape Boers -Great Trekkers -the Transylvaalia Dutch

Which of the following is associated with the concept of continental drift? -separate development -Pangaea -land alienation -continentality -apartheid

The ethnic group exerting the most control in Kenya is the: -Hutu -Kikuyu -Swahili -Tutsi -Xhosa

Which of the following countries was established by former American slaves? -Gambia -Guinea -Guinea-Bissau -Ghana -Liberia

Whereas West Africa's environmental zones are aligned in east-west belts, most of its states are oriented in a north-south direction. -TRUE -FALSE

Which of the following does not lie within the presently delimited country of Somalia: -Somaliland -Puntland -Mogadishu -the Ogaden area -the tip of the African Horn

Dar es Salaam is the capital of: -Saudi Arabia -Tanzania -Kenya -Somalia -Ethiopia

The name Tanzania derives from the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. -TRUE -FALSE

A disease that spreads worldwide is known as a(n): -vector -agent -pandemic -endemic -epidemic

Which of the following countries borders Lake Victoria? -Sudan -Uganda -Malawi -The Congo -Ethiopia

Equatorial Africa is the most developed region of the realm. -TRUE -FALSE

The natural environment of Botswana is dominated by: -mountains associated with the Great Escarpment -the Kalahari Desert -coastal swamps and deltas -tropical rainforest -the inland delta of the Niger River

The upper basin of the Niger River has been an area of far greater cultural development over time than its coastal delta region. -TRUE -FALSE

Most African families still depend on subsistence agriculture. -TRUE -FALSE

The last country to give up its African colonies was: -the United States -Germany -France -Belgium -South Africa

Which of the following countries is the home of the Shona and Ndebele tribes where whites have been expelled by government-backed squatters seeking their land? -Botswana -Cameroon -Zimbabwe -Zambia -Tanzania

Africa's distributions of climate and vegetation are almost symmetrical about the equator. -TRUE -FALSE

This West African country borders Liberia, is a former French colony, and built a Roman Catholic basilica in Yamoussoukro to rival St. Peter's in Rome: -Ivory Coast -Chad -Niger -Guinea -Senegal

The Ibo-dominated breakaway republic within Nigeria during the 1960s called itself Biafra. -TRUE -FALSE

South Africa's cities almost stopped growing during the period of apartheid. -TRUE -FALSE

Which of the following states was not a colony of France prior to its independence? -Ivory Coast -Chad -Ghana -Senegal -Burkina Faso

Congo, Central African Republic, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea are all located in Equatorial Africa. -TRUE -FALSE

The bulk of West Africa's population is concentrated in the region's north. -TRUE -FALSE

Although much of Subsaharan Africa still practices tribal religions, Islam penetrated from the north to confront these faiths as well as Christianity as it advanced southward. -TRUE -FALSE

The Islamic Front is located on the northern fringes of the Sahara. -TRUE -FALSE

Land tenure refers to: -the balance between population and land resources -the sustainable development level of a tract of land -the way people own, occupy, and use land -a system not unlike tenure at a university, where once you gain land, you keep it forever -a form of subsistence farming

Namibia was once called Southwest Africa and was under South African control before independence. -TRUE -FALSE

The term "veld" refers to the forested area of northern South Africa. -TRUE -FALSE

Nigeria's old capital of Lagos was situated within the culture area of the people known as the: -Ndebele -Yoruba -Boers -Ibo -Hausa

Which of the following is located in the African Transition Zone? -tropical rainforests -the Kalahari Desert -the Islamic Front -the Zambezi Basin -Madagascar

The now-independent political entity that once was a German colony named South West Africa is today known as: -Namibia -Botswana -Western Rhodesia -Tanganyika -Togo

The Yoruba nation lives in Nigeria and the Zulu in South Africa. -TRUE -FALSE

The Islamic Front is most correctly located within the African Transition Zone. -TRUE -FALSE

The country that moved its capital from Lagos to the new centrally-located city of Abuja is: -Nigeria -Tanzania -The Congo -Niger -Ethiopia

Tanzania is East Africa's largest country in territorial as well as demographic terms, but it never had minorities as large as those in Kenya or Uganda -TRUE -FALSE

Johannesburg has a slightly larger population than Cape Town. -TRUE -FALSE

West Africa showed a high degree of regional complementarity between: -Islamic and African languages -French and British colonies -former West Africa and East Africa -peoples in the east and peoples in the west -the peoples of the tropical forest and the people of the dry interior

Ghana was formerly known as the Gold Coast. -TRUE -FALSE

Zambia, Sierra Leone, and Malawi were all British colonies. -TRUE -FALSE

The supercontinent Pangaea at one time joined together what is now Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia, Madagascar, and India. -TRUE -FALSE

Ivory Coast and Ghana were both French colonies. -TRUE -FALSE

The country in Equatorial Africa that had a border dispute with Nigeria over an oil-rich area is: -Congo -Cameroon -Central African Republic -Gabon -Chad

The core area of Zimbabwe is the mineral-rich Great Dyke. -TRUE -FALSE

The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is that: -an endemic disease moves swiftly through the population of a local area, whereas a pandemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way -a pandemic disease is limited to moving swiftly through the population of a local area, whereas an endemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way -a pandemic disease moves through the population of a large area of the world, whereas an endemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way -there is no difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease -none of the above

Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of: -France -Germany -Britain -Belgium -South Africa

A market that is set up only on certain days of the week is known as a _____ market. -mobile -nomadic -pandemic -periodic -common

The Boer War took place in: -Kenya -South Africa -the Netherlands -Sudan -Nigeria

Which of the following is a lingua franca? -Bantu -Kalahari -Swahili -Sharia -Niger-Kordofanian

Which of the following countries is located in the Horn of Africa? -Burkina Faso -Mali -Niger -Nigeria -Ethiopia

The country of Lesotho is completely encircled by South Africa. -TRUE -FALSE

Senegal is a country in the Horn of Africa. -TRUE -FALSE

Which of the following countries is located in the Bulge of Africa? -Senegal -South Africa -Somalia -Chad -Kenya

Eritrea is a region located in Sudan that has been fighting a war of independence since 1956. -TRUE -FALSE

Senegal was the anchor of France's West African empire. -TRUE -FALSE

Cabinda is a(n): -exclave of Angola -independent country facing the Indian Ocean -surrounded by South Africa -island that was formerly independent, but is now part of -Tanzania -province of The Congo

Which of the following countries is not located in Southern Africa? -Botswana -Cameroon -Zimbabwe -Zambia -Moçambique

The largest city in terms of population in Sub-Saharan Africa is? -Accra -Lagos -Cape Town -Abidjan -Nairobi

This small country gains much of its importance because of its location on the Bab el Mandeb Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea. -Ethiopia -Swaziland -Niger -Egypt -Djibouti

The great river of Southern Africa is the: -Zambezi -Zimbabwe -Niger -Congo -Angola

The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and the only coastal capital is: -Congo -Cameroon -Central African Republic -Gabon -Angola

Namibia was once called Southwest Africa and was under South African control before independence. -TRUE -FALSE

Natal Province contains South Africa's largest cluster of Asians. -TRUE -FALSE

The Yoruba are the dominant ethnic group in The Congo. -TRUE -FALSE

Under the terms of the separate development program, South Africa's land was divided equally between the majority Africans and the minority whites. -TRUE -FALSE

Which of the following countries was not a British colony prior to its independence? -Zimbabawe -Zambia -Kenya -Ethiopia -Malawi

African sleeping sickness is transmitted by the tsetse fly. -TRUE -FALSE

Africa is one of only two continents containing a cluster of: -Great Prairies -Great Mountains -Great Oceans -Great Rivers -Great Lakes

Rwanda and Burundi: -have both driven out their Hutu populations -are Africa's most densely populated countries -were former British colonies -both border Lake Victoria -all of the above are true

The Hutus and Tutsis fought for control of Uganda. -TRUE -FALSE

Southern Africa's mineral wealth is matched by its agricultural diversity. -TRUE -FALSE

Which of the following countries is not located in The African Transition Zone? -Mauritania -Mali -Niger -Somalia -Tanzania

A unique aspect of Madagascar is that: -the Great Rift Valley predominates in the central part of the country -the population is of Malay-Polynesian origin -it produces exceptional quantities of salt -the island is controlled by the South Africans whose apartheid system prevailed there until 2003 -most of the population is of East African ancestry