Cultural Geography Chapter 13
What language did the Dutch settlers speak?
Afrikaans
What term is used for the policy of strict racial segregation practiced in South Africa until the 1990's?
Apartheid
What were the Dutch Farmers who settled beyond Cape Town called?
Boers
In what country would you find the Okavanga Delta?
Botswana
Which three countries lie on the plateau in southwest Africa?
Botswana, Namibia, and Angola
What oil-rich area that is part of Angola is bordered on two sides by the Republic of Congo, one side by the Democratic Republic of Congo, and on one side by the Atlantic Ocean?
Cabinda
What city of more than 3.3 million people is located at the Cape of Good Hope?
Cape Town
What is the extreme southern tip of Africa called?
Cape of Good Hope
What is the major export for both Rwanda and Burundi?
Coffee
What term is applied to people in South Africa who are of mixed European and African descent?
Coloureds
Which famous British missionary devoted his life to ministry in eastern and southern Africa?
David Livingstone
Which eastern African country is one of only two African countries that no foreign power has ever successfully colonized?
Ethiopia
What countries make up the Horn of Africa?
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia
What geographic feature is like a large gash in the earth stretching from the Middle East southward through East Africa?
Great Rift Valley
What large desert covers more that half of Botswana?
Kalahari Desert
Masai
Kenya
Which nation in southern Africa is surrounded by South Africa, one of only a handful of countries that are surrounded by another country?
Lesotho
What island-the fourth largest in the world-is off the southeast coast of South Africa?
Madagascar
an unusual island
Madagascar
What is the highest mountain in Africa?
Mount Kilimanjaro
Which country is the key to East Africa, and what is its capital?
Nairobi, Kenya
List three major deserts found in southern and eastern Africa
Namib Desert, Kalahari Desert, and the Denakil Desert
Skeleton Coast
Namibia
Which black leader, perhaps more than any other, helped to end the policy of segregation in South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
Name four important rivers of southern and eastern Africa
Nile River, Zambezi River, Orange River, and Limpopo River
What nation did the Dutch establish after they had fled British control?
Orange Free State
What is the name of the group of 115 islands located northeast of Madagascar?
SEychelles
Horn of Africa
Somalia
In what country would you find the Drakensberg Mountains?
South Africa
apartheid
South Africa
What name is given to all lands below the Sahara Desert?
Sub-Saharan
Nile's cataracts
Sudan
What is the lingua franca of East Africa?
Swahili
Which African country has the highest incidence of AIDS among the adult population?
Swaziland
In what country would you find the Serengeti Plain?
Tanzania
Mount Kilimanjaro
Tanzania
What people group includes hundreds of tribes in Sub-Saharan Africa?
The Bantus
What two Rwandan tribes make up most of the population of that country and have periodically warred against each other?
The Hutus and the Tutsis
What tribe of nomads, who are known for their skills as warriors, have their home in Kenya?
The Masai
What geographical feature has divided Africa and , consequently, had the greatest effect on the continent?
The Sahara Desert
In what area are more forms of large wildlife found than in any other part of Africa?
The Serengeti Plain
What are the vast grasslands, or savannas, that stretch over much of South Africa called?
The Veldt
What two rivers join in East Africa to form the Nile River?
The White Nile and Blue Nile
Which river originates in Zambia and flows across southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
The Zambezi River
What word was applied to both the region across the Vaal River and the second independent Boer state?
Transvaal
In what country would you find the Ruwenzori?
Uganda
What geographic feature did David Livingstone describe as "the most wonderful sight I had witnessed in Africa?"
Victoria Falls
What waterfall makes an impressive plunge on the Zambezi River?
Victoria Falls
copper
Zambia
Which island off the coast of eastern Africa once produced 80% of the world's cloves?
Zanzibar
What two countries formed Rhodesia?
Zimbabwe and Zambia
The export of what commodity is responsible for more than half of Angola's GDP?
oil
