Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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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.

(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 legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

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

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

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

A Somali-based militant Islamic group.

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

A French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.

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