Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

Currency from another country.

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

A French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.

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