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39 Cards in this Set
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What are the 3 major deserts in Africa?
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Sahara, Namib and Kalahari
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Most of Africas river are not navigable for long distances. (True/False)
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True
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What fly spreads sleeping disease among humans and makes raising livestock impossible in some areas in Africa?
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Tsetse Fly
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Where did a locust swarm occur in 1988?
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Mauritania, Africa
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What is the world's tallest land animal?
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Giraffe
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What is the world's fastest land mammal?
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Cheetah
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From 1850 to 1914 who controlled much of Western Africa? Eastern Africa?
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French-Western, British-Eastern
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What disease is changing the face of Africa? How many orphans could there be in 10 years?
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AIDS, 40 million orphans
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The Great Pyramids of Egypt are one of the great world wonders. (True/False)
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True
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What is the world's longest river?
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Nile River in Africa
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Where is the world's driest inhabited place?
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Aswan, Nile River, Egypt
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Beautiful bird that was once an ugly duckling. Put an a in front of it.
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The Sahara desert is now encroaching upon the country, which is now how much desert?
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2/3
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In the 1970's what percentage of animals died due to a drought in Niger?
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90%
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What commodity is abundant in Asente?
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Gold
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What is Ghana's major export?
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Gold
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The Asente tribe is famous for displaying what in its ceremonies?
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Gold ornaments
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What is Africa's highest populated country?
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Nigeria, 138 million people
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What is cameroon known as?
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Africa in miniature
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What erupted from Lake Nyos in Cameroon in 1986, quickly and silently suffocating 1,700 people?
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CO2 (Carbon Monoxide)
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Style of Music and Dance that began in Cameroon.
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Makossa
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What type of tourism does Kenya support?
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Wildlife tourism
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Where is the Serengeti Plain located?
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Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania
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What is the largest country in area in Africa?
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Sudan
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In 2003, a conflict broke out in which country, displacing nearly 2 million people and caused an estimated 200,000-400,000 deaths?
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Western Region of Darfur
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What country in Africa is subject to devastating droughts and famines?
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Ethiopia
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These girls scar their bodies to make themselves attractive to the opposite sex.
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Karo girls
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Brand of corn syrup
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What are the world's poorest countries?
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Malawi and Somalia
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In December 1992, the U.S. And U.N. entered which country to protect food shipments to those who were starving?
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Somalia
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All U.S. and U.N. forces withdrew from Somalia in what month and year?
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March 1995
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Since 2005, dozens of ships have been hijacked by what group of people from what country?
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Pirates from Somalia
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What is Zimbabwe's most spectacular feature?
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Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River
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In 2000, what leader of ZImbabwe placed people in control of the country’s agriculture that had no experience in farming?
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Robert Mugabe
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What is the world's largest diamond and where was it taken from?
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The Golden Jubilee, South Africa 1986
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Nearly 47% of all the world's gold comes from which country?
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South Africa
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Who was elected as South Africa's first black president in 1994?
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Nelson Mandela
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What's another name for racial segregation that was abolished in 1991?
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Apartheid
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In Madagascar, most people are of what descent?
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Asian
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Madagascar has how many miles of tropical beaches and plant life?
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3,000 miles
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What is the multi-island democratic country that takes good care of it's 81,000 citizens?
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Seychelle
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