Course Title: de Blij, Regions 15e
Chapter Number: 06
1) Africa is one of only two continents containing a cluster of:
a) Great Prairies
b) Great Mountains
c) Great Oceans
d) Great Rivers
e) Great Lakes
Answer: e
2) Which of the following is associated with the concept of continental drift?
a) separate development
b) Pangaea
c) land alienation
d) continentality
e) apartheid
Answer: b
3) A disease that spreads worldwide is known as a(n):
a) vector
b) agent
c) pandemic
d) endemic
e) epidemic
Answer: c
4) The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is that:
a) an endemic disease moves swiftly through the population of a local area, whereas a pandemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way
b) a pandemic disease is limited to moving swiftly through the population of a local area, whereas an endemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way
c) a pandemic disease moves through the population of a large area of the world, whereas an endemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way
d) there is no difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease
e) none of the above
Answer: c
5) Land tenure refers to:
a) the balance between population and land resources
b) the sustainable development level of a tract of land
c) the way people own, occupy, and use land
d) a system not unlike tenure at a university, where once you gain land, you keep it forever
e) a form of subsistence farming
Answer: c
6) West Africa showed a high degree of regional complementarity between:
a) Islamic and African languages
b) French and British colonies
c) former West Africa and East Africa
d) peoples in the east and peoples in the west
e) the peoples of the tropical forest and the people of the dry interior
Answer: e
7) Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of:
a) France
b) Germany
c) Britain
d) Belgium
e) South Africa
Answer: d
8) Which of the following states was not a colony of France prior to its independence?
a) Ivory Coast
b) Chad
c) Ghana
d) Senegal
e) Burkina Faso
Answer: c
9) Which of the following countries was not a British colony prior to its independence?
a) Zimbabawe
b) Zambia
c) Kenya
d) Ethiopia
e) Malawi
Answer: d
10) The last country to give up its African colonies was:
a) the United States
b) Germany
c) France
d) Belgium
e) South Africa
Answer: e
11) Which of the following countries is not located in Southern Africa?
a) Botswana
b) Cameroon
c) Zimbabwe
d) Zambia
e) Moçambique
Answer: b
12) The great river of Southern Africa is the:
a) Zambezi
b) Zimbabwe
c) Niger
d) Congo
e) Angola
Answer: a
13) A unique aspect of Madagascar is that:
a) the Great Rift Valley predominates in the central part of the country
b) the population is of Malay-Polynesian origin
c) it produces exceptional quantities of salt
d) the island is controlled by the South Africans whose apartheid system prevailed there until 2003
e) most of the population is of East African ancestry
Answer: b
14) People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa are called:
a) Highveld Hollanders
b) Afrikaaners
c) Cape Boers
d) Great Trekkers
e) the Transylvaalia Dutch
Answer: b
15) The Boer War took place in:
a) Kenya
b) South Africa
c) the Netherlands
d) Sudan
e) Nigeria
Answer: b
16) Which of the following statements is false?
a) Climatically, South Africa is Africa's only true temperate-zone country.
b) South Africa contains significant untapped petroleum reserves.
c) South Africa's white population is larger than the white populations of all other Subsaharan African countries combined.
d) South Africa has large coal reserves.
e) The Boers are now called the Afrikaners.
Answer: b
17) The natural environment of Botswana is dominated by:
a) mountains associated with the Great Escarpment
b) the Kalahari Desert
c) coastal swamps and deltas
d) tropical rainforest
e) the inland delta of the Niger River
Answer: b
18) Which of the following countries is the home of the Shona and Ndebele tribes where whites have been expelled by government-backed squatters seeking their land?
a) Botswana
b) Cameroon
c) Zimbabwe
d) Zambia
e) Tanzania
Answer: c
19) The now-independent political entity that once was a German colony named South West Africa is today known as:
a) Namibia
b) Botswana
c) Western Rhodesia
d) Tanganyika
e) Togo
Answer: a
20) Cabinda is a(n):
a) exclave of Angola
b) independent country facing the Indian Ocean
c) surrounded by South Africa
d) island that was formerly independent, but is now part of Tanzania
e) province of The Congo
Answer: a
21) Which of the following countries is not located in East Africa?
a) Nigeria
b) Kenya
c) Uganda
d) Tanzania
e) Burundi
Answer: a
22) Tourism, once a particularly important business in _____, struggles to remain viable in the face of numerous challenges:
a) Liberia
b) Kenya
c) Uganda
d) Burkina Faso
e) Nigeria
Answer: b
23) The ethnic group exerting the most control in Kenya is the:
a) Hutu
b) Kikuyu
c) Swahili
d) Tutsi
e) Xhosa
Answer: b
24) Dar es Salaam is the capital of:
a) Saudi Arabia
b) Tanzania
c) Kenya
d) Somalia
e) Ethiopia
Answer: b
25) Which of the following countries borders Lake Victoria?
a) Sudan
b) Uganda
c) Malawi
d) The Congo
e) Ethiopia
Answer: b
26) Which of the following is a lingua franca?
a) Bantu
b) Kalahari
c) Swahili
d) Sharia
e) Niger-Kordofanian
Answer: c
27) Two countries which were originally part of German East Africa, but were given to the Belgians after World War I are:
a) Tanzania and Kenya
b) Zimbabwe and Zambia
c) Zanzibar and Madagascar
d) Rwanda and Burundi
e) Congo and The Congo
Answer: d
28) Rwanda and Burundi:
a) have both driven out their Hutu populations
b) are Africa's most densely populated countries
c) were former British colonies
d) both border Lake Victoria
e) all of the above are true
Answer: b
29) Which of the following countries is not located in Equatorial Africa?
a) Gabon
b) Congo
c) Ivory Coast
d) Cameroon
e) Central African Republic
Answer: c
30) The capital of The Congo is:
a) Nairobi
b) Lagos
c) Brazzaville
d) Kinshasa
e) Dakar
Answer: d
31) The largest city in terms of population in Sub-Saharan Africa is?
a) Accra
b) Lagos
c) Cape Town
d) Abidjan
e) Nairobi
Answer: b
32) The two groups who fought one another in the Rwandan civil war are the:
a) Xhosa, Yoruba
b) Muslims, Christians
c) Flemish, Walloons
d) Hutus, Tutsis
e) Rwandans, Burundians
Answer: d
33) The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and the only coastal capital is:
a) Congo
b) Cameroon
c) Central African Republic
d) Gabon
e) Angola
Answer: d
34) The country in Equatorial Africa that had a border dispute with Nigeria over an oil-rich area is:
a) Congo
b) Cameroon
c) Central African Republic
d) Gabon
e) Chad
Answer: b
35) Which of the following countries is located in the Bulge of Africa?
a) Senegal
b) South Africa
c) Somalia
d) Chad
e) Kenya
Answer: a
36) Which two colonial powers dominated West Africa?
a) Britain and France
b) Portugal and Spain
c) Germany and Britain
d) U.S. and France
e) Belgium and the Netherlands
Answer: a
37) Nigeria's old capital of Lagos was situated within the culture area of the people known as the:
a) Ndebele
b) Yoruba
c) Boers
d) Ibo
e) Hausa
Answer: b
38) The country that moved its capital from Lagos to the new centrally-located city of Abuja is:
a) Nigeria
b) Tanzania
c) The Congo
d) Niger
e) Ethiopia
Answer: a
39) The first West African state to gain its independence, formerly called the Gold Coast, is:
a) Ghana
b) Guinea
c) Sierra Leone
d) Gambia
e) Benin
Answer: a
40) This West African country borders Liberia, is a former French colony, and built a Roman Catholic basilica in Yamoussoukro to rival St. Peter's in Rome:
a) Ivory Coast
b) Chad
c) Niger
d) Guinea
e) Senegal
Answer: a
41) Which of the following countries was established by former American slaves?
a) Gambia
b) Guinea
c) Guinea-Bissau
d) Ghana
e) Liberia
Answer: e
42) A market that is set up only on certain days of the week is known as a _____ market.
a) mobile
b) nomadic
c) pandemic
d) periodic
e) common
Answer: d
45) Which of the following is located in the African Transition Zone?
a) tropical rainforests
b) the Kalahari Desert
c) the Islamic Front
d) the Zambezi Basin
e) Madagascar
Answer: c
43) Which of the following countries is not located in The African Transition Zone?
a) Mauritania
b) Mali
c) Niger
d) Somalia
e) Tanzania
Answer: e
44) Most countries in the African Transition Zone have a _____ population in the north and a _____ population in the south.
a) relatively large/sparse
b) Muslim/Christian-animist
c) non-Muslim/Muslim
d) African/Saharan
e) sedentary/nomadic
Answer: b
45) Which of the following does not lie within the presently delimited country of Somalia:
a) Somaliland
b) Puntland
c) Mogadishu
d) the Ogaden area
e) the tip of the African Horn
Answer: d
46) Which of the following countries is located in the Horn of Africa?
a) Burkina Faso
b) Mali
c) Niger
d) Nigeria
e) Ethiopia
Answer: e
47) This small country gains much of its importance because of its location on the Bab el Mandeb Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea
a) Ethiopia
b) Swaziland
c) Niger
d) Egypt
e) Djibouti
Answer: e
Question Type: True/False
48) The Kalahari Desert is found in the central part of The Congo.
Answer: False
49) The supercontinent Pangaea at one time joined together what is now Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia, Madagascar, and India.
Answer: True
50) Africa's distributions of climate and vegetation are almost symmetrical about the equator.
Answer: True
51) African sleeping sickness is transmitted by the tsetse fly.
Answer: True
52) A local or regional outbreak of a disease is known as an epidemic.
Answer: True
53) Most African families still depend on subsistence agriculture.
Answer: True
54) The West African savanna states benefited from complementarity between the peoples of the forests and the peoples of the dry lands to the north.
Answer: True
55) The upper basin of the Niger River has been an area of far greater cultural development over time than its coastal delta region.
Answer: True
56) The Berlin Conference took place immediately after World War I and was attended by 8 colonial powers interested in acquiring African spheres of influence.
Answer: False
57) Ivory Coast and Ghana were both French colonies.
Answer: False
58) Zambia, Sierra Leone, and Malawi were all British colonies.
Answer: True
59) Although much of Subsaharan Africa still practices tribal religions, Islam penetrated from the north to confront these faiths as well as Christianity as it advanced southward.
Answer: True
60) Southern Africa's mineral wealth is matched by its agricultural diversity.
Answer: True
61) The term “veld” refers to the forested area of northern South Africa.
Answer: False
62) Natal Province contains South Africa's largest cluster of Asians.
Answer: True
63) Under the terms of the separate development program, South Africa's land was divided equally between the majority Africans and the minority whites.
Answer: False
64) The Yoruba nation lives in Nigeria and the Zulu in South Africa.
Answer: True
65) South Africa's cities almost stopped growing during the period of apartheid.
Answer: False
66) Namibia was once called Southwest Africa and was under South African control before independence.
Answer: True
67) The core area of Zimbabwe is the mineral-rich Great Dyke.
Answer: True
68) The country of Lesotho is completely encircled by South Africa.
Answer: True
69) Tanzania is East Africa's largest country in territorial as well as demographic terms, but it never had minorities as large as those in Kenya or Uganda.
Answer: True
70) The name Tanzania derives from the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
Answer: True
71) Congo, Central African Republic, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea are all located in Equatorial Africa.
Answer: True
72) Equatorial Africa is the most developed region of the realm.
Answer: False
73) The Hutus and Tutsis fought for control of Uganda.
Answer: False
74) Johannesburg has a slightly larger population than Cape Town.
Answer: True
75) Whereas West Africa's environmental zones are aligned in east-west belts, most of its states are oriented in a north-south direction.
Answer: True
76) The Yoruba are the dominant ethnic group in The Congo.
Answer: False
77) Nigeria is a major oil producer.
Answer: True
78) The Ibo-dominated breakaway republic within Nigeria during the 1960s called itself Biafra.
Answer: True
79) Ghana was formerly known as the Gold Coast.
Answer: True
80) Sierra Leone was settled by former American slaves.
Answer: False
81) Senegal was the anchor of France's West African empire.
Answer: True
82) The bulk of West Africa's population is concentrated in the region's north.
Answer: False
83) Periodic markets are found in the central city squares of West Africa's largest urban concentrations.
Answer: False
84) The Islamic Front is most correctly located within the African Transition Zone.
Answer: True
85) The Islamic Front is located on the northern fringes of the Sahara.
Answer: False
86) Senegal is a country in the Horn of Africa.
Answer: False
87) Eritrea is a region located in Sudan that has been fighting a war of independence since 1956.
Answer: False
88) The edge of the African plateau in Southern Africa, where the feature is especially pronounced, is known as the Great _____.
Answer: Escarpment
89) The 1884 conference of all the major colonial powers that essentially drew the modern political map of Africa, was held in the European city of _____.
Answer: Berlin
90) Prior to their independence, Moçambique and Angola were both colonies of _____.
Answer: Portugal
91) The African mainland country directly west of the island of Madagascar is _____.
Answer: Moçambique
92) The capital of The Congo, called Leopoldville in colonial times, is _____.
Answer: Kinshasa
93) The most populous country of the African continent, which today comprises a confederation of the Yoruba, Ibo, and northern Muslim peoples, is _____.
Answer: Nigeria
94) Nigeria's dominant export commodity, produced in large quantities is _____.
Answer: oil
95) The advancing religion in the African Transition Zone is _____.
Answer: Islam
96) The southern periphery of the African Transition Zone is known as the _____ Front.
Answer: Islamic
97) The country that is located at the tip of the African Horn is _____.
Answer: Somalia
98) Africa’s volcanoes, earthquakes, escarpments, and rift valleys are all expressions of the geophysical process called _____.
Answer: plate tectonics
99) The systematic field of geography that focuses on the causes, locations, and spread of diseases is called _____ geography.
Answer: medical