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.

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 French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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