Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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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).

A Somali-based militant Islamic group.

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

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

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

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

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

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

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

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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

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