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Geography Chapter 14 Review Game Part II
Test Description: Sub-Saharan Africa Today
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What does Nigeria produce more of than any other African country?
A
oil
B
agricultural products
C
gold
D
diamonds
2) What has been the most difficult challenge Nigeria has faced in attempting to use its oil riches?
A
modernization
B
weak military
C
ethnic conflict
D
commodities
3) After Muslims in the north of Nigeria adopted sharia law, Christians in the area began moving south.
A
True
B
False
4) What two things have prevented NIgerians from sharing in the oil wealth?
A
conflict and corruption
B
lack of infrastructure and resources
C
modernization and apartheid
D
lack of education and poverty
5) What can disrupt the availability of food and contribute to a famine?
A
armed conflicts
B
both of these
C
neither of these
D
natural diasters, such as droughts and floods
6) Because of hunger and malnutrition, African children typically have longer life expectancies than other children around the world.
A
False
B
True
7) Which of the following is NOT a way that European settlers affected farming in Africa?
A
they shifted farming from food crops to cash crops for export
B
they took the most fertile land
C
all of these
D
they created large plantation farms to grow food crops
8) How are Africans working to improve agricultural practices?
A
farmers are using fertilizer with animal and plant waste instead of chemicals
B
farmers are growing different crops on the same plot to avoid exhausting the soil
C
all of these
D
farmers are moving animals from place to place to avoid overgrazing
9) How many of the one million people who die of malaria each year are in Africa?
A
two-thirds
B
9 out of 10
C
4 out of 5
D
one-half
10) People of what age make up eighty-five percent of malaria victims?
A
middle-aged women
B
young adults 18 - 30
C
children under five
D
men and women over 70
11) How does poverty contribute to the spread of disease?
A
poor sanitation
B
all of these
C
contaminated water
D
overcrowding
12) What have Sudan and Somalia been plagued by for years?
A
famine
B
all of these
C
disease
D
war
13) Northern Sudan is mostly desert, while South Sudan is swamp and savanna.
A
False
B
True
14) Northerns in Sudan practice mainly Christianity or indigenous religions, while southerners are mainly Muslism
A
False
B
True
15) What have Somalians never united to form a single nation?
A
they have suffered through conflict among five major clans
B
they have too many different languages
C
they are still a colony of France
D
they have too many different religions
16) How were whites and blacks treated differently in South Africa?
A
all of these
B
only whites were allowed to vote
C
Black AFricans were left with land that was less useful or productive
D
cities were delcared white, and black Africans could enter them only to work
17) What major change took place in 1994 in South Africa?
A
new laws created apartheid, or the legal separation of races
B
voting rights were extended to all South Africans, and the people elected Mandela president
C
after a series of wars, the Boer territories became British colonies known as the Union of South Africa
D
the government made all black South Africans citizens of a homeland instead of citizens of South Africa
18) Which two nations claimed South Africa in the 19th century?
A
the British and the Dutch
B
the Danes and the Swedes
C
the Italians and the Arabs
D
the Germans and the French
19) With no central government, some Somalian clans turned to piracy
A
False
B
True
20) Why do 90 percent of tropical disease cases occur in Africa?
A
the organisism that causes disease thrive in its tropical climates
B
neither of these
C
the insects that carry the disease thrive in the tropical climates
D
both of these
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