World Geography 7

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What is the approximate population of sub-Saharan Africa?

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700 million

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What process is creating a series of rift features along the eastern flank of the African continent?

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Crustal plates that underlie the African continent are spreading apart.

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Which of the following is the most accurate general description of the geomorphology of the African continent?

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It resembles a raised platform edged by narrow coastlines.

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Which of the following characterizes the Intertropical Convergence Zone and its effects on Africa's climate?

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Warm southerly winds meet warm northerly winds, causing uplift and cooling of the air, which then releases moisture as rain.

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What are the names of the African deserts found in roughly 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south, respectively?

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The Sahara and the Namib

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Which of the following is among the strategies used by cultivators in the wet tropics to maintain soil fertility?

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Allow the land to reforest after 2 to 3 years

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Which of the following bests describes the effect of the trans-Atlantic slave trade?

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All of these

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Which of the following events involving Europe and Africa occurred during the late nineteenth century?

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Europe established formal colonies in Africa.

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By what means did nineteenth-century European powers prevent armed conflicts among themselves in Africa in their separate colonial efforts?

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They established distinct boundaries between their territorial claims in Africa

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Which of the following occurred shortly after the Dutch gained control over the Cape of Good Hope in the 1650s in what is now the country of South Africa?

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The first significant migrations of Europeans to Africa

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Which of the following statements describes the people known as the Boers?

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Dutch immigrant farmers who were among the first Europeans to settle in Africa

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Which of the following resulted from South Africa's policy of apartheid which ended only in 1994?

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The assignment of all black people in the country to their so-called Homelands

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Which of the following reflects the meaning of the term carrying capacity?

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Maximum number of people a given territory can support sustainably.

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Which of the following statements provides the most adequate description of the practice of genocide?

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Deliberate destruction of an ethnic, racial, or political group

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What circumstance tends to prevail in places in Africa where birth rates have declined?

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Traditional gender role restrictions are relaxed

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What widespread disease in sub-Saharan Africa is associated with dam and irrigation projects?

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Schistosamiasis

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In sub-Saharan Africa, what group is represented more than any other in the population infected with the AIDS virus?

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Heterosexual women

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More than 70 percent of people in sub-Saharan Africa find employment in what sector?

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Agriculture

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While the economic policies introduced by most newly independent states in sub-Saharan Africa were generally unsuccessful, what country managed to create a large and diversified economy during the post colonial period?

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South Africa

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The financial crisis in sub-Saharan Africa is a product of which of the following?

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Debt has accumulated during years of low economic growth

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Lending institutions, working through the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, have threatened to cut off all loans to states in sub-Saharan Africa unless they introduce policies that are designed to achieve which of the following?

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Adopting structure adjustment programs aimed at reducing state controls on their economies

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Which of the following describes one effect of structural adjustment programs on African agriculture?

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Inhibited food production for domestic (African) markets

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Which of the following occurred in sub-Saharan Africa during the period between 1961 and 1995?

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Per capita food production declined

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Which of the following reflects a problem associated with the informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa?

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It provides some relief for the poor, but profits are unreliable

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Which of the following statements is accurate regarding present-day Nigeria?

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Its primary resource and export is oil

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Which of the following statements describes a typical squatter settlement in sub-Saharan Africa?

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Dense assemblages of shanties built by poor urban migrants in need of housing

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In sub-Saharan Africa, in which of the following aspects of agriculture are men most likely to be involved?

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Cultivating and growing cash crops

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What was the overall reason for the retreat of African men from the realm of domestic work during the European colonialism?

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The need to engage in cash-earning activities to pay taxes

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Which of the following is the best characterization of the climatic conditions brought about by the slow advance of the African Sahel?

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Arid

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Which of the following uses of wood has contributed most to the disappearance of dry forests

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Fuel

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Although Africa's GDP indicates a desperately poor continent, some production is often missed in calculating GDP there. Which of the following is often missed?

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Raising food in family plots

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Which of the following does NOT contribute to the low ranking of African countries on the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI)

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Low status of women