WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY Chapter 8 Subsaharan Africa - Study Questions

Which country in Southern Africa has the fastest growing economy solely due to its oil wealth?

Angola

Which two countries in southern Africa were formerly Portuguese colonies and more recently have embraced Marxist regimes?

Angola and Mozambique

People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa are called

BOERS

Which two European colonial empires settled and even fought for rule over South Africa?

Britain and Dutch

Which non-African nation has become the most heavily invested throughout Subsaharan Africa today, and often in a rather unscrupulous manner?

CHINA

What is the Witwatersrand? What city lies in the middle of it?

300 mile long gold deposit in South Africa, Johannesburg

What is Boko Haram? Where have they been most active?

A JIHADIST ISLAMIC ORGANIZATION. IN NIGERIA.

Which countries belong to The Sahel? What is the Sahel?

A semiarid zone between the dry sahara desert and the humid savanna zone The countries are Senegal Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea.

What is Nigeria's most important resource?

PETROLEUM

What was apartheid? Where was it once established as policy?

POLICY THAT PROMOTES RACIAL SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION. ESTABLISHED IN SOUTH AFRICA

Who was Nelson Mandela?

PRESIDENT OF A UNITED SOUTH AFRICA. HE ENDED APARTHEID

Which country in East Africa suffered a civil war between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups, ending in genocide in 1994?

RWANDA

he emergence of which new African country coincides with a nearly perfect dividing line between North and Subsaharan Africa? It's the "newest" country in Africa.

SOUTH SUDAN

Which is usually considered to be Africa's most economically developed country?

South Africa

18. After Pangaea broke apart, Africa formed part of Gondwana, from whence which other continent once perfectly fit into Africa until it broke away from this geologically ancient landmass?

South America

he tsetse fly was once responsible for the diffusion of what epidemic in Africa?

TRYPANOSOMIASIS

What is Swahili? Where is it spoken?

Tanzania, Kenya, and Democratic Republic of Congo; native language spoken on the Eastern African coastline

What prominent physical feature divides Africa into two very distinctive realms?

The Sahara Desert

What does the "Triangular Trade" refer to?

This is the trade process btwn Europe, America, and Africa

Savannas usually coincide with which type of climate?

Tropical wet and dry

Which country, on the shores of Lake Victoria, suffered rule by brutal dictator Idi Amin in the 1970s and since the 1980s was heavily hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic?

Uganda

Which 3 countries surround Lake Victoria?

Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya

Which branch, or tributary, of the Nile River is the longest?

White nile

Why is there xenophobia in South Africa today? Is it just by whites against blacks?

Xenophobia- dislike of foreigners MOTIVATED BY THE PERCEPTION THAT THESE IMMIGRANTS ARE STEALING JOBS FROM SOUTH AFRICANS, AND FURTHER FUELED BY THE DOMINANCE OF LOW-END COMMERCE BY FOREIGN ENTREPRENEURS WHOSE BUSINESS SKILLS EXCEED THOSE OF THE NATIVES.....THEREFORE NOT JUST WHITE AGAINST BLACKS

The first West African state to gain its independence, formerly known as the Gold Coast

is Ghana.

The deadliest disease in Subsaharan Africa is

malaria

A disease that spreads worldwide is called a

pandemic

Name two countries in Africa that have "Guinea" as part of their name.

Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea

What are the three ethnic nations of Nigeria?

HAUSA, YORUBA, AND IGBO

The two peoples who fought each other in the Rwandan civil war during the 1990s are the

HUTUS AND TUTSIS

Which major lakes are formed by the Great Rift Valley?

Lake Victoria, Tanganyika, Malawi

What are the two highest mountain peaks, both of which are dormant volcanoes, in East Africa, and in all of Subsaharan Africa?

Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjan

Name the three longest rivers in Africa?

NIle, Niger, Chambeshi

Which country in southern Africa was formerly a German colony before it was ruled by South Africa for many years?

Namibia

What is Sub-Saharan Africa's largest city? Lagos It is in Africa's most heavily populated country,

Nigeria

Lake Victoria forms the headwaters of which river?

Nile

What is Al Shabaab? In which country do they mostly operate?

A terrorist group in Somalia

What is a wadi?

A valley that has a river that is usually dry except a wet season

What is Afrikaans? Where is it spoken?

AFRICAN DUTCH LANGUAGE. SPOKEN IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (BOTSWANA, LESOTHO, MALAWI, NAMIBIA, SWAZILAND, & ZAMBIA)

Who are/were the Boers? The Afrikaners? BOERS--

BOERS ARE PEOPLE OF DUTCH ANCESTRY. BOERS BECAME AFRIKANERS AFTER WAR WITH BRITAIN IN WHICH THEY LOST, THEREFORE BOERS WANTED TO SHED EUROPEAN TIES SO THEY BECAME THE AFRIKANERS

In which 2 Equatorial African countries are the capital cities across the river from each other and thus directly face each other? What are the names of those cities?

BRAZZAVILLE (CONGO) AND KINSHASA (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)

The Kalahari Desert mostly dominates which country in Southern Africa?

Botswana

Which resource, especially in the D.R. of Congo, has been ever increasingly important as a component in cell phone manufacturing?

Copper and cobalt

Sub-Saharan Africa's largest country, but which is most lacking in transportation infrastructure thus keeping much if it very isolated and fragmented, is:

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Which country in Africa overlooks the "choke point" into the Red Sea and is the smallest country in the Horn of Africa? Which country in Southwest Asia (Arabian Peninsula) overlooks the same "choke point"?

Djibouti; Yemen

What has been the most recent disease epidemic in Africa? Which country was the hardest hit by this disease?

EBOLA GUINEA

Which country in East Africa suffered a major famine in the 1980s?

ETHIOPIA

tropical rainforests usually coincide with which type of climate?

Equatorial climate

The famous rock-cut churches of Lalibela attest to the long history of Coptic Christianity in which East African country?

Ethiopia

What is the Great Rift Valley? Which sea forms part of the Great Rift Valley?

Formed by the movement of tectonic plates The Red Sea

Which country in West Africa has become the most stable and is considered an African "trailblazer"?

GHANA

he country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and the only coastal capital is ___________________.

Gabon

In which country is the fabled city of Timbuktu located?

MALI

Which country in West Africa was divided in two back in 2012 due to Islamist Tuareg rebels in the northern Saharan region declaring independence from the rest of the country?

Mali

Who are the coloured people of South Africa?

SUBSTANTIAL POPULATION OF MIXED ANCESTRY CLUSTERED AT THE CAPE Heterogeneous --ingigenous khoisan and xhosa and slaves imported from the Dutch East Indies

hree major deserts in Africa include:

Sahara, Kalahari, Namib

What is Amharic? Where is it spoken?

Semitic language, Ethiopia

24. Which countries belong to the Horn of Africa? East Africa? West Africa? Equatorial Africa? Southern Africa?

Senegal, The Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Durkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, and Eritrea

Which countries are considered to be in the "African Transition Zone" between North Africa and Subsaharan Africa?

Senegal, The Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Durkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, and Eritrea

Which West Africa country is a major producer of diamonds and was featured in the Hollywood film "Blood Diamonds"?

Sierra Leone

Which territory declared itself independent in the 1990s, as a de facto country, and yet remains part of the completely lawless and thus failed state of Somalia?

Somaliland

16. Where in Subsaharan Africa has a Mediterranean environment, and thus a major wine-producing region, located?

South Africa

What is the drought-prone environmental zone that lies between the Sahara Desert to the north and the more humid savannas to the south? It is also the semi-arid environmental zone that coincides almost exactly with the transition zone between North Africa from Subsaharan Africa.

The Sahel

17. Why is Africa called the "Cradle of Humanity"?

The oldest fossils of early man were found in Africa.

The great river of Southern Africa, upon which Victoria Falls is located, is the __________________, and it straddles the border between which two countries?

Zambezi River, Zambia, Zimbabwe

19. From which civilization in southern Africa is a modern state named?

Zambia

From which country did the dictator Robert Mugabe endorse tribal squatters to expel white settlers?

Zimbabwe