Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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Currency from another country.

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

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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

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

White Dutch settlers in South Africa. Also the name of their language.

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

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

A Somali-based militant Islamic group.

The slaughter of half a million Tutsis by rival Hutu in Rwanda in 1994.

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 French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.

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