Final Exam Review Part 2

Front 1

______ is Africa's most profitable commodity.

Back 1

Oil

Front 2

______ is the primary health concern in Central Africa.

Back 2

AIDS

Front 3

Africa grows 20% of the world's ______.

Back 3

Coffee

Front 4

Africa is still suffering from the effects of nineteenth century ______ conducted by many nations of ______.

Back 4

Colonialism; Europe

Front 5

Africa's highest (and volcanic) mountains include ______ and ______.

Back 5

Mount Kenya and Mount Kilamanjaro

Front 6

**Africa's largest freshwater lane at 420 miles is ______ and at certain parts the lake reaches depths of ______ feet.

Back 6

Lake Tanganyika; 2,300 (maybe 4,700)

Front 7

Africa's largest, and the world's second largest freshwater lake, ______ sits in a shallow basin between two rift valleys and is only ______ feet deep.

Back 7

Lake Victoria; 270

Front 8

By the 1800s the nations of Europe saw Africa as a region of ______ and a ______.

Back 8

Raw materials; market of manufacturing goods

Front 9

From 1884-1885, fourteen European nations convened the ______ conference to set rules for dividing ______.

Back 9

Berlin; Africa

Front 10

In 1910 South Africa gained it's independence and the white minority implemented this policy, or the separation of the races, know as ______.

Back 10

Apartheid

Front 11

In 1984, South Africa held its first election in which all adult citizens could vote, the results of which, was the election of South Africa's first black president, ______.

Back 11

Nelson Mandela

Front 12

In the Sahel most families are organized into groups of people descends from an earlier common ______, known as ______.

Back 12

Ancestor; clans

Front 13

Most of Africa's rain forests sit on the equator in the ______.

Back 13

Congo Basin

Front 14

The ______ dramatically increased when Europeans began making transatlantic voyages to the Americas.

Back 14

Slave trade

Front 15

The ______ is 2,900 miles long and forms the continent's largest waterway network, however, with 32 ______, large portions of the river are ______.

Back 15

Congo River; waterfalls; impassable

Front 16

The ______ civilization was one of the first in the Sahel as it pushed north as the ______ civilization declined.

Back 16

Kush; Egyptian

Front 17

The process by which fertile land becomes desert is known as ______.

Back 17

Desertification

Front 18

The West African nation of ______ is one of the most densely populated with nearly ______ million people.

Back 18

Nigeria; 137

Front 19

These were created when ______ plates pulled apart over millions of years as the land sank to form long, thin valleys called ______.

Back 19

Tectonic; Rift Valleys

Front 20

Today, East Africa's agriculture balance is changing as people are leaving farms for the ______.

Back 20

Cities

Front 21

______ is the process in which grassland becomes drier and desert areas expand.

Back 21

Desertification

Front 22

______ is the religious belief that there are spirits throughout nature.

Back 22

Animism

Front 23

A ______ is a ship with move able sails used along the coasts of Arabia, India, and eastern Africa.

Back 23

Dhow

Front 24

An ______ is an interdependent system of plants and animals that need each other to survive.

Back 24

Ecosystem

Front 25

______ is the chest described in the Book of Exodus as contained the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed.

Back 25

Ark of the Convanent

Front 26

A ______ is a priest or priestess who uses magic to cure illness and predict the future.

Back 26

Shaman

Front 27

A ______ is an animal or a plant that serves as an emblem for a family or clan.

Back 27

Totem

Front 28

The language of ______ evolved to allow trade between different cultures in East Africa.

Back 28

Swahili

Front 29

The holiday of ______ in the Ethiopian Othodox Church, commemorates the discovery of the True Cross on which Jesus was crucified. It is a time of family reunions.

Back 29

Meskel

Front 30

The amount of money an average person makes per year in a certain country is known as ______.

Back 30

Per Capita Income

Front 31

The ______ is the name of the series of hills and mountains that interrupt Australia's otherwise level landscape.

Back 31

Great Diving Range

Front 32

The ______ lies south of the Great Victoria Desert and means "no tree" in Latin.

Back 32

Nullabor Plain

Front 33

______ is formed from the limestone skeletons of tiny sea animals.

Back 33

Coral

Front 34

The ______ and ______ supply water that supports the farming of wheat, barely, fruit, and sugarcane in Australia.

Back 34

Murray River; Darling River

Front 35

Australia's Western Plateau is a low area of flat land in central and western Australia that covers two-thirds of the continent and is also known as the ______.

Back 35

Outback

Front 36

It is from ______that pressurized water flows to the surface, but is too salty for humans or crops to drink.

Back 36

Artesian Wells

Front 37

______ are ring-shaped islands, like Marshalls Islands, that are formed by the buildup of coral reeds on the rim of submerged volcanoes.

Back 37

Atolls

Front 38

Australia has designated the ______ on its northeast coast a national Park and the United Nations has named it a World Heritage Site.

Back 38

Great Barrier Reef

Front 39

The ______ were the first nomadic hunters in Australia, arriving from Southeast Asia about 40,000 to 60,000 years ago. They number about 315,000 and makeup about 2% of Australia's population.

Back 39

Aborigines

Front 40

The ______ people live in New Zealand and originally cane from the islands of Polynesia. They lice by hunting, fishing, and planting crops.

Back 40

Maori

Front 41

______ arrived in the region in the late 1500s and began to colonize the region.

Back 41

Europeans

Front 42

Two of Australia's largest cities are ______ and ______.

Back 42

Sydney; Melbourne

Front 43

In 1901, Britain's Australian Colonies became states and formed the Commonwealth of Australia. The now country was a largely self-governing country within the British Empire known as a ______.

Back 43

Dominion

Front 44

______ is the name given to Australian English, which has unique vocabulary made up of aboriginal words, terms used by early settlers, and slang created by modern Australians.

Back 44

Strine

Front 45

______ is the major religion practices in both Australia and New Zealand.

Back 45

Christianity

Front 46

Over time the people's of Oceania settled into three major groups of islands including ______, Micronesia, and ______.

Back 46

Melanesia; Polynesia

Front 47

Due to vast distances separating early peoples many languages developed and today in Oceania nearly ______ languages are spoken.

Back 47

1,200

Front 48

______ is the most widely spoken language in Oceania today.

Back 48

French

Front 49

The original inhabits of Australia have a direct relationship to the landscape and believed in a system of beliefs known as ______.

Back 49

Dreamtime

Front 50

The early people of Australia led a nomadic life in which their family group traveled together within their ancestral territory. This family group is also known as a ______.

Back 50

Clan

Front 51

The original inhabitants of Australia used a heavy throwing stick known as a ______ to hunt animals.

Back 51

Boomerang