Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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The slaughter of half a million Tutsis by rival Hutu in Rwanda in 1994.

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

A giant continent that broke up around 180 million years into Africa, Australia, Antarctica, India and South America.

The region of the world that falls between the Tropic of Cancer (23.43 degrees North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.43 degrees South).

The amount of greenhouse gases produced for any given person, entity or practice.

Name given to a series of innovations that were especially prominent from the late 1960s to the 1970s, that increased agriculture production through new high-yielding varieties of crops, irrigation, and the use pesticides and fertilizers.

(ITCZ) A belt of low pressure around the equator.

The downsides of a heavy reliance on one or more primary commodities such as oil, that include corruption, wildly fluctuating government revenues and stunted economic development

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

A country in which the city and the state are essentially one and the same.

The belief that non-human entities have spirits, prominent among hunter-gatherers yet evolving into subsequent cultures.

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