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West Packet; Africa
Mrs. Cassady's West Packet
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Geography
9th Grade
04/20/2008

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What potentially global problem does the region of West and Central Afric share with Amazonia?
Definition
deforestation; destruction of the rain forest
Term
What are two ways that civil wars and ethnic fighting hinder the development of African nations?
Definition
a. devisates their economy
b. hampers humanitarian aid
Term
What are two ways that rapis population growth is resulting in the destruction of Africa's land?
Definition
a. overgrazing of vegatation (desertification)
b. cutting the rain forest
Term
What is a veld?
Definition
open grassland in central plateau of South Africa
Term
What is the tsetse fly?
Definition
insect that kills cattle and casues sleeping sickness in people
Term
What is reforestation?
Definition
the process of replacing damaged or destroyed forests
Term
What are three ways that farmers and herders have adapted of Africa's environmental relaties?
Definition
a. frequently moving crops
b. avoided areas with infested insects
c. herders moved from pasture to pasture
Term
WHY IS AFRICA'S POPULATION RESULTING IN AN OVERALL DECLINE IN INCOME?
Definition
LIMITED RESOURCE BASE MUST PRODUCE MORE FOOD
Term
WHAT IS PASTORAL NOMADISM?
Definition
WHEN AFRICAN CATTLE HERDERS MOVE THEIR HERDS THROUGH OUT THE YEAR
Term
WHAT ARE THREE PROBLEMS OR DISATERS WHICH HAVE PLAUGED AFRICAN HERDERS?
Definition
A. EPIDEMICS DESTORYED CATTLE HERDERS
B. EUROPEANS PREVENTED HERDERS FROM THEIR NORMAL LIFES
C. DOUGHT DESTROYED CATTLE HERDS OF THE SAHEL
Term
AFRICAN'S ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WERE BASED ON WHAT THREE OCCUPATIONS?
Definition
A. FARMING
B. HERDING
C. LONG DISTANCE TRADE
Term
ON WHAT IMPORTANT TRADE ROUTE WAS THE KINGDOM OF GHANA LOCATED ON?
Definition
FROMT HE GOLD MINES OF THE RAIN FOREST TO THE SALT MINES IN THE SAHARA
Term
HOW WAS THE LOCATION OF TIMBUKTU VITAL TO THE CITY'S PROSPERITY?
Definition
IT ALLOWED TRADE BETWEEN LAND AND WATER
Term
IN THE GUN-SLAVE CYCLE, AFRICAN KINGS BOUGHT _______ AND USED THEM TO _______ ENEMIES, WHO WERE SOLD TO BUY MORE _________.
Definition
GUNS, ENSLAVE, GUNS
Term
WHAT WERE EUROPEANS' THREE GREAT MOTIVES FOR VENTURING INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA?
Definition
A. CURIOSITY
B. CHRISTIANITY
C. COMMERCE
Term
WHAT LANGUAGE DID THE CUTCH WHO SETTLED IN SOUTH AFRICA SPEAK?
Definition
AFRIKAAN
Term
WHAT IS A HOMELAND?
Definition
RESERVES SET ASIDE FOR BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS, LOCATED IN THE LEAST DESIRABLE AREAS
Term
WHO ARE THE BOERS?
Definition
DUTCH COLONISTS WHO SETTLED IN SOUTH AFRICA
Term
WHAT WERE GERMANY'S TWO PURPOSES IN CREATING A GERMAN HOMELAND IN TANGANYIKA?
Definition
A. CREATE GERMAN HOMELAND TO GET MORE FOOD
B. PRODUDE RAW MATERIALS TO JUMP START THEIR ECONOMY
Term
IN SOUTH AFRICA, WHAT THREE OPTIONS DID BLACK AFRICANS HAVE FOR PLACES TO LIVE?
Definition
A. HOMELANDS
B. RESERVES
C. FARMS OWNED BY WHITES
Term
WHAT TWO REASONS CAUSED EUROPEANS TO LOOK FAVORABLY ON AFRICAN DEMANDS FOR INDEPENDENCE FOLLWOING WORLD WAR II?
Definition
A. EUROPEANS COLONIAL POWERS EXHASTED BY WAR
B. EAGER TO REBUILD THEIR OWN COUNTRY
Term
WHAT TWO AFRICAN NATIONS WERE INDEPENDENT IN 1955?
Definition
LIBERIA AND ETHIOPIA
Term
LIST FIVE SOURCES OF PROBLEMS FOR AFRICAN'S NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES?
Definition
A. NATIONAL BOUNDARIES DON'T REFLECT THEIR ETHIC DIFFERENCES
B. ETHIC TENSIONS
C. NO LEADERS WERE TRAINED
D. DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO USE THEIR RESOURCES
E. BECAME DEPENDENT ON THE SALE OF MINERALS
Term
COLONIALISM LEFT WHAT THREE BASIC PROBLEMS FOR THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT AFRICAN SLAVE?
Definition
A. BOUNDARIES WERE DRAWN TO SUIT EUROPEANS
B. TRANSPORTATION WAS WEAK
C. HAD DUEL ECONOMY
Term
WHAT IS A DUEL ECONOMY?
Definition
HAVING TWO SEPARTE ECONOMYS
Term
WHAT ARE FIVE DISEASES AFFLICATING AFRICANS?
Definition
A. MALARIA
B. AIDS
C. SCHISTOSOMIASIS
D. BLINDNESS (WORMS)
E. SLEEPING SICKNESS (TSETSE FLYS)
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