Deck 6: Sub-Saharan Africa

Question 1

Precipitation in Sub Saharan Africa

A)is greatest in the southern portion of the region.
B)varies significantly.
C)is consistent year round.
D)is heaviest in winter months.
E)primarily occurs in the summer months.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What physical processes are responsible for the creation of the Rift Valleys of eastern Africa?

A)converging tectonic plates
B)tectonic plates that are separating
C)volcanism
D)erosion by rivers
E)desertification

Answer 2

B

Question 3

A ban on elephant poaching was removed in the late 1990s to

A)provide needed monetary resources for developing economies in the region.
B)to supply ivory to the large Chinese market.
C)to allow some African states to sell down their inventories of ivory.
D)to cull elephant herds which had grown too large
E)allow local ranchers to protect their cattle herds.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What country in the region is a cautionary tale about the limits of the ability of a valuable natural resource, such as oil, to promote development?

A)South Africa
B)Kenya
C)Sudan
D)Nigeria
E)Angola

Question 5

Desertification is

A)desert belts that extend across the north of the continent.
B)expansion of the desert due to human degradation of the environment.
C)removal of vegetative cover from tropical environments.
D)expansion of the desert due to the seasonal changes in precipitation.
E)expansion of the desert due to loss of biodiversity.

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a problem associated with deforestation in the woodlands of the savannas in Sub-Saharan Africa?

A)flooding
B)the reliance upon biofuels
C)shortage of biofuels
D)soil erosion
E)extreme economic hardship

Question 7

The physical geography of sub-Saharan Africa is best described by

A)numerous mountain ranges which soar to the highest elevations on the planet
B)a series of rift valleys that traverse the continent from east to west, creating a high mountain range through the Sahel
C)a series of plateaus and elevated basins
D)tropical lowlands that stretch across the continent
E)the presence of a high mountain range that runs the length of the continent, like the Andes in South America

Question 8

What parts of Sub-Saharan Africa are most vulnerable to global climate change?

A)the cities
B)the tropical rainforests
C)the arid and semi-arid regions
D)highland regions
E)the temperate zones

Question 9

In what region of Sub-Saharan Africa is desertification most severe?

A)the Sahel
B)the Kalahari
C)South Africa
D)the Congo
E)the Horn of East Africa

Question 10

Which region of Africa is a major natural gas producer?

A)Southeastern Africa
B)the Horn of Africa
C)Central Africa
D)in the Sahel of Northern Africa
E)Southwestern Africa

Question 11

What is being proposed by NGOs as an alternative biofuel to reduce deforestation in Africa?

A)Bamboo
B)Savanna Woodlands
C)dung
D)Eucalyptus
E)Tropical Hardwoods

Question 12

Why did Professor Wangari Maathai of Kenya win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004?

A)She established the "Doctors Without Frontiers" program.
B)She was able to lower population growth in rural Kenya.
C)Her Greenbelt Movement led to the planting of millions of trees.
D)She brought an end to Apartheid in South Africa.
E)She negotiated a peace agreement in Darfur, Sudan.

Question 13

As a region, what is the unifying characteristic of Sub-Saharan Africa?

A)common religious experience
B)unified political system
C)similar cultural values
D)shared language
E)similar lifestyles and idea systems

Question 14

The physical geography of southern Africa is defined by this landform, a steep cliff separating the coastal lowlands from the plateau uplands.

A)The Great Escarpment
B)The Rift Valley
C)Lake Nyasa
D)Drakensburg Mountains
E)Gondwana

Question 15

An explanation for Sub Saharan Africa's relatively poor soils is

A)the extensive glaciation of the continent during the last ice age.
B)soils that are old and the lack of alluvial lowlands.
C)most of the region's soils are old.
D)lack of extensive glaciation and older soils.
E)the lack of alluvial lowlands.

Question 16

What are the primary biofuels in Sub-Saharan Africa?

A)fuels manufactured from food and lawn wastes
B)wood chips that are compacted together into log form and then sold at African markets for heating fuel
C)a new form of synfuel that has been created to solve Sub-Saharan Africa's energy problems
D)wood and charcoal used for household energy needs
E)non-renewable resources such as coal and oil that are used to power industrial operations in African factories

Question 17

In which Sub-Saharan African island nation has commercial logging and agricultural clearing caused the tropical rainforest to disappear almost entirely from the eastern half of the island?

A)Madagascar
B)the Democratic Republic of Congo
C)Gabon
D)Republic of the Congo
E)Ghana

Question 18

What river has been a major supplier of commercial energy for decades in the region of southern Africa?

A)Zambezi
B)Niger
C)Limpopo
D)Nile
E)Congo

Question 19

The Sub Saharan African vegetation zone characterized by a mixture of trees and tall grasses with rainfall occurring primarily during the summer season is

A)Coniferous Forest.
B)Tropical Forest.
C)Desert.
D)Tropical and Coniferous Forest.
E)Savanna.

Question 20

The fertile soils of the Rift Valley are explained by

A)extensive glaciation during the last ice age.
B)voluminous river systems and extensive glaciation.
C)volcanic activity associated with the area.
D)large-scale agricultural projects.
E)voluminous river systems in the area.

Question 21

Which country in Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest population in the region?

A)Nigeria
B)Ethiopia
C)Kenya
D)Angola
E)South Africa

Question 22

Approximately what fraction of Nigerian citizens live in cities?

A)one-half
B)three-quarters
C)two-thirds
D)one-quarter
E)one-third

Question 23

The policy of Apartheid is associated with which nation in sub-Saharan Africa?

A)Nigeria
B)Kenya
C)Mozambique
D)South Africa
E)Zambia

Question 24

The transportation, financial and communication hub for all of East Africa is

A)Johannesburg
B)Addis Ababa
C)Nairobi
D)Lagos
E)Mombasa

Question 25

Family size is large in much of Sub-Saharan Africa for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT

A)birth control methods are neither readily available nor universally accepted.
B)most women do not have high levels of education.
C)infant and child mortality rates are low.
D)rural lifestyle.
E)young marrying age of women.

Question 26

On average, about how many children does a woman in Africa have during her lifetime?

A)1 or 2
B)4
C)3
D)8 or more
E)5

Question 27

Sub-Saharan Africa

A)has a relatively high GNI per capita.
B)contains about two billion people.
C)has seen declining population numbers in recent years due to AIDS.
D)has a young population in comparison with western countries.
E)is a region of middle-income countries.

Question 28

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the population pyramids of Ethiopia and South Africa?

A)South Africa has a younger population than Ethiopia
B)There are roughly an equal number of males and females in their 30s in South Africa
C)South Africa is growing faster than Ethiopia
D)Women have more children in South Africa than do women in Ethiopia
E)Ethiopia is growing faster than South Africa

Question 29

Which of the following locations is NOT a major population cluster within sub-Saharan Africa?

A)the lake District of Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and western Kenya
B)the Niger Delta of Nigeria
C)the rift valleys of Ethiopia
D)the coastline of West Africa (Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal)
E)the Namibian Desert

Question 30

Swidden agriculture involves

A)clear-cutting the forest for timber
B)exporting high value agricultural goods.
C)animal husbandry.
D)the production of yams for export.
E)burning the natural vegetation to release nutrients.

Question 31

Which of the following is an example of Apartheid's lasting legacy on the urban landscape of South Africa?

A)squatter settlements called townships
B)the development of the Silicon Savannah
C)the full integration of blacks and whites within the South African urban landscape
D)the presence of a "Global Central Business District" or CBD
E)the mixture of European and Islamic architecture

Question 32

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to what percent of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic?

A)5%
B)50%
C)10%
D)25%
E)70%

Question 33

Which two contiguous African nations have the highest population density?

A)Mail and Niger
B)Benin and Togo
C)Rwanda and Burundi
D)Zambia and Zimbabwe
E)Kenya and Tanzania

Question 34

The AIDS crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa has its highest prevalence in

A)East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania)
B)West Africa (ex. Ghana, Ivory Coast)
C)Southern Africa (South Africa, Malawi, Zambia)
D)Central Africa (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi)
E)urban areas across the continent

Question 35

What is the most important of the indigenous language groups of Sub Saharan Africa?

A)Austronesian
B)Khoisan
C)Indo-European
D)Nilo-Saharan
E)Niger-Congo

Question 36

The total population of sub-Saharan Africa is

A)just over two billion
B)just below one billion
C)500 million
D)1)5 billion
E)250 million

Question 37

What is Sub-Saharan Africa's largest city?

A)Kinshasa, Congo
B)Lagos, Nigeria
C)Cape Town, South Africa
D)Nairobi, Kenya
E)Accra, Ghana

Question 38

Which two languages began as trade languages in Sub-Saharan Africa and are now the most widely used languages in their respective regions?

A)Swahili and Yoruba
B)Spanish and Portuguese
C)Swahili and Hausa
D)French and English
E)Arabic and French

Question 39

Which of the following statements regarding population density is TRUE?

A)crude population density will always be higher than physiological density
B)if the crude population density is low, the physiological density will be even lower
C)crude population density is higher than agricultural density
D)agricultural density is rarely higher than crude population density in sub-Saharan Africa
E)physiological density must be higher than crude population density

Question 40

The largest city and financial and transportation hub of southern Africa is

A)Kinshasa
B)Addis Ababa
C)Bamako
D)Johannesburg
E)Nairobi

Question 41

Which European country lost all of its African colonies by 1920 as a result of World War I?

A)Belgium
B)England
C)Germany
D)Portugal
E)France

Question 42

What African leader envisioned the political unity of Africa?

A)Nelson Mandela of South Africa
B)Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya
C)Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
D)Marcus Garvey
E)Felix Houphouet-Boigny of Ivory Coast

Question 43

In what category are indigenous African religions generally placed?

A)Animist
B)Islamic
C)Christian
D)Buddhist
E)Protestant

Question 44

Ethiopia and Eritrea adopted which form of Christianity?

A)Coptic Christianity
B)Evangelical Christianity
C)Roman Catholicism
D)Orthodox Christianity
E)Protestantism

Question 45

Boko Haram is most associated with which nation in sub-Saharan Africa?

A)Nigeria
B)Sudan
C)Congo
D)South Africa
E)Somalia

Question 46

Africa's undisputed film capital is

A)Nairobi, Kenya
B)Bamako, Mali
C)Lagos, Nigeria
D)Dakar, Senegal
E)Kinshasa, Congo

Question 47

When did most countries of Sub-Saharan Africa gain independence?

A)in the years immediately following World War I
B)in the 1990s
C)in 1946 and 1947
D)from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s
E)during the first decade of the twentieth century

Question 48

What was the first European country to have extensive contact with Sub-Saharan Africa?

A)Britain
B)Spain
C)Germany
D)France
E)Portugal

Question 49

Ali Farka Touré, known as the Bluesman of Africa, hailed from which nation in Africa?

A)Ghana
B)Senegal
C)Nigeria
D)Burkina Faso
E)Mali

Question 50

The Khoisan linguistic family is largely concentrated in which part of sub-Saharan Africa?

A)the Namibian Desert region of southwestern Africa
B)the coastal regions of East Africa (ex. Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique)
C)the central Congo Basin
D)West Africa (ex. Senegal, Ghana)
E)the Horn of East Africa (ex. Somalia, Ethiopia)

Question 51

Which of the following was a result of the Berlin Conference?

A)the creation of boundary divisions that often placed hostile ethnic groups in the same colonial territory
B)the surrender of all German-held colonies in Africa
C)the abolishment of slavery throughout Africa
D)the merging of all African colonies into one colonial entity controlled by England
E)the expulsion of all European colonial powers from Africa

Question 52

The Amharic language family is largely found in which contemporary sub-Saharan African nation?

A)Senegal
B)Ethiopia
C)Madagascar
D)Nigeria
E)Ghana

Question 53

What nation in sub-Saharan Africa split into a largely Arabic speaking Muslim north and a non-Arabic Christian south in 2011 after decades of civil war?

A)Ethiopia
B)Kenya
C)Senegal
D)Sudan
E)Somalia

Question 54

Ethiopia and Kenya have dominated in which sport?

A)rowing
B)long-distance running
C)short-distance sprinting
D)soccer
E)basketball

Question 55

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding major religions within Africa?

A)the majority of sub-Saharan Africa is Christian
B)the majority of sub-Saharan Africa is neither Christian nor Muslim
C)the majority of northern Africa is Muslim while the majority of southern Africa is Christian
D)the majority of northern Africa is Christian while the majority of southern Africa is Muslim
E)the majority of sub-Saharan Africa is Muslim

Question 56

You are travelling to both Angola and Mozambique. Which language would be practical to learn before you depart?

A)French
B)Arabic
C)Spanish
D)Portuguese
E)English

Question 57

Which of the following countries did NOT receive African territory in the Berlin Conference?

A)Germany
B)France
C)Portugal
D)Great Britain
E)United States

Question 58

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the ethnoreligious composition of Nigeria?

A)Igbo are Muslim, Hausa are Christian and Yoruba are evenly mixed between the two faiths
B)Igbo are Christian, Hausa are Muslim and Yoruba are evenly mixed between the two faiths
C)Igbo are Muslim, Yoruba are Christian and Hausa are evenly mixed between the two faiths
D)Hausa are Muslim, Yoruba are Christian and Igbo are evenly mixed between the two faiths
E)Yoruba are Muslim, Hausa are Christian and Igbo are evenly mixed between the two faiths

Question 59

In the colonial period, what European country had primary control of western Africa?

A)Spain
B)Germany
C)Portugal
D)Britain
E)France

Question 60

You are travelling to Senegal, Ivory Coast and Mali. Which language would be practical to learn before you depart?

A)Portuguese
B)French
C)Arabic
D)English
E)Spanish

Question 61

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to what percent of the world's uneducated children?

A)one-half (50%)
B)two-fifths (40%)
C)one-fifth (20%)
D)one-fourth (25%)
E)one-third (33%)

Question 62

What do many experts attribute as a cause of many of Africa's civil conflicts?

A)the ill-conceived territorial divisions crafted at the Berlin Conference
B)Apartheid
C)uneven distribution of resources
D)unemployment
E)outside agitators

Question 63

Which nation in East Africa has disintegrated into an ungovernable territory ruled by clans, warlords and militias?

A)Kenya
B)Djibouti
C)Somalia
D)Ethiopia
E)Eritrea

Question 64

What country is the largest investor in Sub Saharan Africa?

A)France
B)Great Britain
C)Australia
D)China
E)The United States

Question 65

What resource is fueling conflict in the West African countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone?

A)Copper
B)Diamonds
C)Aluminum
D)Gold
E)Petroleum

Question 66

What is a kleptocracy?

A)an African nation that has recently achieved independence from its colonial masters
B)an African democracy that is led by representatives from all its native tribes
C)a state where corruption is so institutionalized that large percentages of the country's wealth is siphoned off by politicians and government bureaucrats
D)an African nation that is communist ruled
E)a state that allies itself with OPEC

Question 67

Which nation hosted the World Cup in 2010, becoming the first African nation do to so?

A)Nigeria
B)Ghana
C)Somalia
D)Kenya
E)South Africa

Question 68

Which of the following reflects one of the current favored explanations of African poverty?

A)depopulation due to the slave trade
B)lack of navigable rivers
C)infertile soils
D)tropical environments
E)HIV/AIDS epidemic

Question 69

Which nation was born out of a Muslim-Christian civil war in 2011?

A)South Sudan
B)Somalia
C)Rwanda
D)Burundi
E)South Africa

Question 70

The overall regional life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa is

A)83 years
B)67 years
C)77 years
D)47 years
E)57 years

Question 71

Which of the following regions in Sub-Saharan Africa seceded from its parent country, Ethiopia?

A)Biafra
B)Shaba province
C)Zululand
D)Eritrea
E)South Africa

Question 72

The grouping of people based on branches of a tribe or ethnic group is a

A)Secessionist movement
B)Clan
C)Family
D)Military coup
E)Warlord

Question 73

Structural adjustment programs, promoted by the IMF involve

A)reduction in government spending.
B)maintenance of local currencies at artificially high levels.
C)increasing food subsidies.
D)debt forgiveness.
E)implementation of "economic nationalism" programs.

Question 74

What percent of children in Sub-Saharan Africa dies before the age of five?

A)20%
B)2)0%
C)12.2%
D)2)2%
E)0)2%

Question 75

The average GNI adjusted for PPP in Sub Saharan Africa was

A)$1.90/day
B)$2200
C)$3400
D)5)4%
E)4)3%

Question 76

Which country of Sub-Saharan Africa is the region's unchallenged economic powerhouse, yet also has one of the worst distributions of income in the world?

A)South Africa
B)Sudan
C)Botswana
D)Gabon
E)Nigeria

Question 77

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the first elected female head-of-state in Africa in 2006. In which nation was she elected President?

A)Liberia
B)Zimbabwe
C)Tanzania
D)South Africa
E)Democratic Republic of the Congo

Question 78

Where has the deadliest political and ethnic conflict, with an estimated war-related 5 million deaths, in the region been?

A)South Africa
B)Kenya
C)Uganda
D)Democratic Republic of the Congo
E)Ivory Coast

Question 79

What African organization was created to help mediate disputes between neighbors in Africa?

A)African Development Corporation
B)African Union
C)Africa United
D)Association of African Nations
E)United States of Africa

Question 80

The current number of internally displaced persons within sub-Saharan Africa is approximately

A)11 million
B)5 million
C)1 million
D)2 million
E)75 million