Globalization and Diversity Ch 6

1) As a region, what is the unifying theme of Sub-Saharan Africa?

2) What is the only country in Africa with an extensive area of mountainous topography? - PG 175 - L

3) What is the Great Escarpment? PG 175 - L

4) In what region of Sub-Saharan Africa is desertification most severe? PG - 178 - L

5) What is transhumance? - PG 178 - R

6) What are the primary biofuels in Sub-Saharan Africa? - PG 180 - R

7) The Sahel can be defined as... PG 178 - L

8) In which Sub-Saharan African country is tropical deforestation the most prevalent? - PG 181 - L

9) What is the international policy regarding the sale of ivory? - PG 181 - R

10) Why did Professor Wangari Maathai of Kenya win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004? - PG 181 - L

11) In what part of Sub-Saharan Africa are the most secure wildlife reserves located? - PG 181- L

12) What parts of Sub-Saharan Africa are most vulnerable to global climate change? - PG 182 - L

13) Which country in Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest population in the region? - PG 183 figure

14) Which country of Sub-Saharan Africa is the LEAST densely settled in the region? - PG 183 figure

15) In Sub-Saharan Africa, at about what age do most women marry? - PG 184 - R

16) On average, about how many children does a woman in Africa have during her lifetime?- PG 182 - R

17) What influence does religious affiliation have on birthrates in Sub-Saharan Africa? - PG 185 - R

18) What disease is a major problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, causing death and leaving many children orphaned?

20) Why is there concern about the tsetse fly in Sub-Saharan Africa? - PG 188 - L

21) Approximately what fraction of Nigerian citizens live in cities? - PG 188 - R

22) What is the racial category used in the country of South Africa to define people of mixed European and African ancestry? - PG 189 - R

23) What is the term for a social unit in Sub-Saharan Africa that is typically smaller than a tribe or ethnic group, but larger than a family, based on descent from a common ancestor? - PG 202 - R

24) Of the following languages, which is the least used in Sub-Saharan Africa? - PG 190 - L

25) What is the most important of the indigenous language groups of Sub-Saharan Africa? - PG 190 - R

26) In what category are indigenous African religions generally placed? - PG 192 - L

27) From the 1500s until 1870, about how many Africans were transported to the Americas as slaves? - PG 194 - R

28) What form of Christianity is most common in Ethiopia? - PG 192 - L

29) What role did disease play in European efforts to colonize Africa?

30) What language began as a trade language in Sub-Saharan Africa and is now the most widely used language in the region? - PG 190 0 R

31) Which countries did receive African territory in the Berlin Conference? - PG 198 - R

32) European colonization was effective throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, with the exception of one country. What was that exception? - PG 191 - L

33) Which European country had lost all of its African colonies by the end of WWI? - PG 198 - R

34) When did most countries of Sub-Saharan Africa gain independence? - PG 198 - R

35) What is the term for a person who has fled from a conflict, but who still resides in his or her country of origin? -PG 200 - R

36) What Sub-Saharan African territory declared its independence in the 1990s, but has yet to be recognized as independent by any other nations? - PG 202- R

37) Of the following countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, which one saw the least political strife in the 1990s?

38) According to the World Bank, what percentage of Sub-Saharan Africans lived on less than $2 a day?- PG 212 summary

39) What is a kleptocracy? - PG 205 -R

40) By the early 1990s, the Sub-Sahara Africa's foreign debt was around -PG 205 - L

42) According to the World Bank, there are about how many cell phones per 100 Africans? - PG 206 - L

43) Throughout the decade of the 2000s, China's trade with Sub-Saharan Africa grew on average ________ percent per year. - PG 206 - L

44) What country has begun offering African nations money for roads, railways, and schools with relatively few strings attached in order to secure oil from African countries to fuel its development?--PG 206 - R

45) Economic aid is extremely important for many African states, and foreign direct investment in the region substantially increased from only $4.5 billion in 1995 to $________ billion in 2010. - PG 206 -R

46) Which country is the unchallenged economic powerhouse in Sub-Sahara Africa?

47) Life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa is ________ years - PG 182 - R

The population of Sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by?

Tropical deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa is most prevalent in Madagascar

One positive change in the region is the decline in child mortality due to greater access to primary health care

One main reason for Portuguese failure to gain a foothold in Africa early on was the disease environment of Africa

HIV/AIDS is currently under control in Sub-Saharan Africa

The most secure wild life reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa are located in the Southern and Eastern part of the region

The slave trade that linked Africa to America and Europe set in motion paths of cultural diffusion that transferred African people and cultures across the Atlantic

Ghana is the only African state with a fully developed modern road network

The deadliest ethnic and political conflict in the region has been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where about 5.4 mil. people died

In 1991, the government of Somalia disintegrated and the territory has been in a civil war ever since

The millennium development goal is a global U.N. effort to reduce extreme poverty by focusing on basic education, health care, and access to clean water

Islam began to advance in Sub-Saharan Africa 2,000 years ago

What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?

State of Biafra

What was the cause of the Nigerian Civil War?

The western North African countries of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco constitute a region known as a) the Sahel. b) the Levant. c) African Transition Zone. d) the Maghreb.

The civilization which arose between the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers was probably one of the earliest cultural hearths on earth. Meaning the "land between the two rivers," _____ was located in the present-day Iraq. a) Sumeria b) Mesopotamia c) Persia d) Harappa

Which former colonial power first colonized South Africa? a) Netherlands b) Britain c) France d) Belgium

Islam is the major religion of the Indian Subcontinent.

Africa was originally part of a giant land mass called Pangaea, meaning "all earth." Pangaea broke up into two land masses around 100 million years ago. The northern land mass was called Laurasia, and contained North America, Europe and Asia. The southern land mass was called _______, and contained Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and South America. a) Ibo land b) Terra Incognita c) Gondwana

The major form of agriculture in Africa is ______ farming. a) plantation b) subsistence c) high technology d) hacienda-style

Africa's climate and vegetation regions are distributed fairly evenly about the equator. This can be seen in the Sahara located in North Africa balanced by the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa. Along the equator, ______ exist. a) grassland prairies b) tropical rainforests c) undifferentiated biomes

The Congo River basin supports what type of vegetation? a) Desert b) savanna c) tropical rainforest d) tundra e) none of the above

In 1884, the western world leaders met to discuss the division of Africa into colonial territories. This meeting was called the ____. a) Berlin Conference b) African Manifesto c) Cape to Cairo Treaty

Which African country was established in 1822 by the USA as a home for its freed slaves? a) Ivory Coast b) Kenya c) Nigeria d) Liberia e) Ghana