Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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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

Currency from another country.

A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

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

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

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

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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

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

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

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).

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