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18 Cards in this Set
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In which country does the White Nile join the Blue Nile? |
a. Sudan |
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Which country south of the equator and north of the Tropic of Capricorn contains only one type of vegetation? What type of vegetation is found in this country? |
b. Zambia; tropical grassland |
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What are the two most highly populated cities in Africa? In which country is each city located? |
d. Cairo, Lagos; Egypt, Nigeria |
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What resources are found in Ghana? What physical feature located in that country helps to explain why hydroelectric power is a resource there? |
b. Precious metals, diamonds, hydroelectric power; Volta River |
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Along which physical feature is most of the population of Egypt located? How does vegetation help to explain why most people live there? |
d. Nile River; Broadleaf Evergreen Forest |
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A woman works for a government agency.• She approves money for a commercialfisherman to buy his own boats.• She approves money for research in thebroadleaf evergreen forest.• She approves money for new ways to raiseanimals in a semiarid climate.• No one asks her about trade andmanufacturing, because there is none.Where does she work? Why do you think so? |
a. Madagascar; commercial fishing; broadleaf evergreen forest; semiarid; trade and manufacturing |
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Identify at least two factors that motivated the international community to start paying closer attention to the Ebola outbreak. |
International travel and the contagiousness of the disease |
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The law of demand states that as quantity demanded decreases |
c. price increases |
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In the summer picnic season, a sharp rise in the price of burgers may lead to an increase in demand for |
c. chicken |
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Supply depends on the willingness and ability of |
b. producers to produce |
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Which of these would most likely increase the supply of soccer balls? |
a decrease in the price of raw materials. |
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The equilibrium price is the price at which |
c. a decrease in the price of raw materials |
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What was one benefit of becoming part of an empire in Early West Africa? |
c. Kings provided protection for conquered territory. |
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The most respected people in Jenne-jeno were ______, who also acted as political leaders, judges and doctors. |
a. blacksmiths |
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What theory did the discovery of Jenne-jeno prove wrong? |
b. Cities did not exist in West Africa until outsiders came in |
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Jenne-jeno's location made it a great place for |
b. farming, fishing, and trading. |
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In West Africa between about 500 and 1600 C.E., Ghana, Songhai, and Mali were three _____ that arose. |
b. kingdoms |
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By around 4000 B.C.E., some people in West Africa formed farming communities made up of |
d. extended families. |