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.

A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

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

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

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

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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

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.

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

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

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

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