Sub-Saharan Africa Physical Geography & Climate
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Unit 8 Test Review
Vocabulary Terms
Commercial Farming Carrying capacity Shifting Cultivation Poaching Understory Patriarchal Biofuel Subsistence Farming E-Commerce Animist
Geographic Locations & landforms
Cape of Good Hope Tibesti Mountains Great Rift Valley Congo River Madagascar Namib Desert Lake Victoria Nigeria Indian Ocean
Sub-Saharan Africa Physical Geography & Climate
1. List all climate regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.
2. Describe the land of the Great Rift Valley, the Serengeti Plain, & the Sahel.
3. Why was Lake Volta built?
4. List the human –created problems in the Transition Zone of Africa.
5. Interpreting climographs of African cities:
6. What hemispheres are these cities in (Northern or Southern)?
7. What cities receive the most precipitation? The least?
8. Which cities may have water shortages?
9. Make a generalization about the yearly temperatures in these African cities. Sub-Saharan Africa Population Patterns & Demographics
10. List factors that explain Africa’s population distribution.
11. What are push factors causing African population migration from the Sahara Desert region 4000 years ago?
12. What are pull factors that explain modern urbanization in Africa today?
Sub-Saharan Africa History
13. List problems caused by European colonization in the following categories:
Farming
Berlin Conference of 1883
Slavery
Modern political systems
Natural resources
14. History of plantation farming in Africa
15. What was the Apartheid system in South Africa?
Sub-Saharan Africa Culture
16. Explain how the Bantu language is an example of cultural diffusion.
17. How do most Africans support their families (what jobs do they do)?
18. How has African culture contributed to issues with:
HIV/AIDS
Farming practices
19. Describe the problems caused poor sanitation throughout Africa.
20. Briefly describe some of Africa’s traditional art forms.
Sub-Saharan Africa Economics
21. Why may E-commerce be a way to improve African economies?
22. What issues have led to difficulties with improving African industrialization?
23. Describe the diamond trade in Africa.
24. What have more & more women done to economically improve their economic status? 25. Use the reading passage below to describe good and bad effects of foreign investment in Africa.
Is China Good or Bad for Africa? By Peter Eigen, Special to CNN
China’s growing presence in Africa is one of the region’s biggest stories, but even seasoned analysts cannot decide whether this booming relationship is good or bad for Africa.
Critics say Chinese strategy is entirely self-promotional, aimed at maintaining access to Africa’s precious mineral resources even when that means propping up odious governments. China’s supporters say the Asian superpower is strictly neutral and business-oriented, preferring to generate economic growth not a dangerous dependency on aid.
China has certainly been contributing to Africa’s economic growth, both in terms of trade and with building infrastructure. All over the continent, it has built roads, railways, ports, airports, and more, filling a critical gap that western donors have been shy to provide and unblocking major bottlenecks to growth.
The rehabilitated 840-mile Benguela railway line, for example, now connects Angola’s Atlantic coast with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. And Chinese-financed roads have cut journey times from Ethiopia’s hinterland to the strategic port of Djibouti, facilitating livestock exports.
Meanwhile, bilateral trade between Africa and China continues to grow at an extraordinary pace, reaching $160 billion in 2011 from just $ 9 billion in 2000.