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