Africa Jeopardy

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Government
Migration Factors
Africas Regions
Vocabulary
Citizen Participation
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In this type of government, people get to vote,
their rights are guaranteed, and ordinary people
hold the power.
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What is a democracy?
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In this type of government, one ruler or a small
group takes control by force. Citizens have no
personal rights or freedoms.
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What is a dictatorship?
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In theocracy, this is how a religious authority
figure becomes the leader.
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Who is a person chosen by high officials or
declaring that they were chosen by God or a
divine power to lead?
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In a monarchy, this is how the king or queen
gains his/her power.
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What is inheriting?
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In a democracy, this is how the leader gains
his/her power.
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What is voting and elections?
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Identify the factor responsible for pulling
people to the Sahara Desert to mine salt, a
natural resource, despite the deserts harsh
climate.
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What is economic factor?
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One environmental factor that pulls people to
this region of Africa located along the equator,
is the abundance of trees, an important natural
resource.
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What is the rainforest?
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Despite the seismic activity (earthquakes,
volcanoes) there, people are pulled to the Great
Rift Valley because of this environmental factor.
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What is fertile soil?
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These are two reasons people decide to live along
the Nile River in Egypt.
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What are silt, transportation, water for
drinking, water for irrigation?
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These are two reasons people move to the city.
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What are? Possible answers include jobs,
education, climate, encouragement from family or
friends, womens rights, etc.
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This term means very dry. It describes Africas
desert region, which receives very little
precipitation.
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What is arid?
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Because of this process, the Sahel region is
becoming a desert.
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What is desertification?
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In order to survive in the hot, arid climate of
the Sahara Desert region, people settle around
these places in the desert where underground
water comes to the surface through springs or
wells.
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What are oases?
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Its the type of region represented by this
climograph.
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What is a desert region?
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This region shares a common climate (intense heat
and daily rainfall) and has an abundance of trees.
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What is a rainforest region?
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These are the names of 0 degrees latitude and 0
degrees longitude.
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What are Equator and Prime Meridian?
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This is the name of the symbol on a map that is
circular and identifies which direction is north,
south, east and west.
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What is Compass Rose?
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This occurs because of deforestation,
overgrazing, and poor farming techniques causing
soil loss.
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What is a desertification?
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This process occurs when land is cleared for
farming and forests are lost.
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What is a deforestation?
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This word, meaning apartness, describes the class
structure in South Africa until 1991. During
this time the black citizens were terribly
mistreated and did not have rights equal to the
white minority.
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What is apartheid?
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These are at least two ways that life changed for
citizens in South Africa when apartheid ended.
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What are black citizens could vote, run for
political office, go to school with white
students, live work in the city?
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These are two ways that citizens can participate
in a democracy.
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What is vote, run for office, protest, work for a
political campaign, exercise freedoms guaranteed
in a Bill of Rights, or pay taxes?
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In this type of government, citizens rights are
determined by a king or queen.
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What is a monarchy?
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In this type of government, citizens have no
guaranteed rights. They are ruled in fear by the
person who gained power by force.
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What is a dictatorship?
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In this type of government, citizens may or may
not have rights. They are ruled by a religious
authority figure.
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What is a theocracy?