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.

Currency from another country.

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

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

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

Goods that come from agriculture, forestry, mining, and fishing.

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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 legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

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.

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

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

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