Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Somali-based militant Islamic group.

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

A French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

The amount of greenhouse gases produced for any given person, entity or practice.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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