Chapter 11 Key Term Quiz

Sub-Saharan Africa
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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 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.

A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

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

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

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

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

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

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

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

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