NAME_____________________________________________
Ch. 18-20 TEST Review
PERIOD___________
AFRICA
1.) What is a pandemic?
2.) What are three causes of desertification in the Sahel?
3.) What were the Bantu migrations?
4.) What happens to rainfall as you move away from the equator? -
5.) What are the reasons why economic development is so difficult in West Africa?
6.) Unstable governments, civil wars, corruption, and poverty were direct results of
_______________________in Africa.
7.) What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?
8.) The most continuous known record of humanity over the past two million years is found at
________________________.
9.) Where in Nigeria are most of the nation’s oil resources located?
10.) Which corrupt dictator of the Democratic Republic of Congo (1965-1997), caused great harm
to the country’s economy, educational system, and social structure?
11.) What was the name given to the god-kings that ruled Egypt in ancient times?
(2)
12.) What was Carthage, in North Africa?
13.) What is Africa’s largest lake, located in the Great Rift Valley?
14.) The disease that is carried by mosquitoes and has become resistant to standard drug
treatment is_______________.
15.) What is a commodity?
16.) The departure of African professionals to western countries is referred to as
the______________________.
17.) Looking at a map of the current political boundaries of Africa compared with the boundaries
of the various tribes, what would you notice?
18.) What is the Sahel?
19.) Which two groups did the British defeat in the 1800s to take control of South Africa?:
20.) What happened in Rwanda in 1994?
21.) What was the main natural cause of the famine which occurred in Somalia in the 1980s and
the 1990s?
22.) What was apartheid?
(3)
23.) What are cash crops?
25.) Which European leader, known for his greed, was responsible for opening the African interior
to European trade by gaining control of trade routes along the Congo River in Central Africa?
26.) Located in West Africa, what is now among the poorest countries on earth?-
27.) Which religion has had the most powerful cultural impact on the culture of North Africa?
28.) What is the Serengeti known for?
29.) What is an aquifer?
30.) What body of water provides over 90% of the water for Egyptians?
31.) As you get closer to the equator in Africa, what happens to rainfall?
32.) . Males in this ethnic group are known to jump very high to impress the females; they live in the
grasslands of the rift valleys of Kenya and Tanzania. Who are they?
33.) What is the importance of Gorée Island?
34.) What is an escarpment?
35.) Located in East Africa near the equator, what is Africa’s highest mountain?
36.) Define: basins -
(4)
37.) The uppermost, leafy part of the rain forest is known as the_____________________.
38.) Why is Nelson Mandela a hero to many South Africans?
39.) The decrease in the silt deposited on the banks of the Nile is one problem created by the building
of the ______________________ built on the Nile River in Egypt.
40.) What is desertification?
41.) What is the name for a governing system that uses family lineages to govern, rather than a
monarch or elected leader?
42.) Where are the rain forests of Africa located?
43.) What is Southern Africa’s most serious health problem?
44.) What city in Southern Africa was the capital of a thriving gold-trading area from the 1200s to
the 1400s? The ruins can be seen there today
45.) The majority of the people of Southern Africa are______________-speaking peoples
46.) What massive structure was completed in 1970 to control flooding of the Nile River?
47.) What sort of art are the Fang, a people who live in Central Africa, famous for?-
48.) What valuable resource had the most dramatic affect on the ancient empires of West Africa?
49.) Name three empires that flourished due to trade in West Africa:
(5)
50.) What are some reasons why economic development is so difficult in West Africa?
51.) What West African country is the poorest in the world?
52.) When did the Bantu migration begin and where did the Bantu people migrate?
53.) Why did Europeans want slaves from Africa?
54.) Who were the first Europeans to establish the African slave trade?
55.) Lack of a clean water supply and adequate sanitation can lead to a treatable, yet often fatal,
infection known as________________.
56.) What is rai?
57.) The Ashanti are famous for what product, or handicraft?
58.) What is Africa’s most profitable commodity?
59.) Why were Europeans interested in acquiring slaves from Africa?
60.) What is an oasis?
61.) What leader of the African National Congress (ANC) became the first black president of
South Africa?
(6)
62.) What policy caused there to be international trade sanctions against South Africa?
63.) What features of Africa’s physical geography were a barrier to the exploration and
colonization of the interior?
64.) Much of Africa experiences high temperatures & humidity because:
65.) What must African countries do so that they are not dependent on only one resource
(like oil), to fuel their economy?
66.) What resource has brought prosperity to some of the countries of North Africa? Which countries?
67.) In which North African nation has the role of women improved?
68.) HIV tests, self-treatment kits, and education programs have been successful in stopping the
spread of HIV in_________________.
69.) In what ways does the Nile River support life?
70.) Why does oil in Angola not always benefit Angolans?
71.) What are some of the benefits of the rain forests in Africa?
72.) What are some of the problems facing education in Central Africa?