Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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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.

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 grassy plain that contains few trees.

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

A Somali-based militant Islamic group.

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.

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.

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

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