Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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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.

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.

Currency from another country.

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

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

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

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

A French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.

A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

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

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

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