2. Africa Ch. 7 Jeopardy What Country? Natural Features EconomicsChallenges The Culture Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

3. What Country: $100 This country had the dictator Joseph Mobutu take over in 1965. He changed the name to Zaire. Today the name has been restored to this…

4. What Country: $100 Answer Democratic Republic of the Congo Joseph Motubu

5. What Country: $200 Question This country has little or no economy and therefore depends on foreign aid.

6. What Country: $200 Answer Malawi Poor family in Malawi

7. What Country: $300 Question This country has two names and is made up of two islands. They struggle in political instability and most people there are poor.

8. What Country: $300 Answer Sao Tome and Principe Open market

9. What Country: $400 Question This coastal country has had a stable government with elected president and enjoys a good economy which gives Its people a high standard of living

10. What Country: $400 Answer Cameroon

11. What Country: $500 Question After years of civil war, this country is now a republic. Most people are subsistence farmers, they have a poor economy (even though they have oil and diamonds), and struggle with inflation.

12. What Country: $500 Answer Angola Peasant farmers in Angola

13. Natural Features : $100 Question This is the most important river of the region. It is used for transportation and its resources.

14. Natural Features: $100 Answer The Congo River

15. Natural Features: $200 Question The warm, rainy climate support The this main natural vegetation of the region.

16. Natural Features: $200 Answer Tropical Rainforest

17. Natural Features: $300 Question This is the bowl – shaped landform that covers much of the region

18. Natural Features: $300 Answer The Congo Basin Satellite Image of the Congo Basin

19. Natural Features: $400 Question The highest mountain of the region. It is located near the coast by the Atlantic Ocean

20. Natural Features: $400 Answer Mt. Cameroon erupting in 1999

21. Natural Features: $500 Question The only mountain range in this region is located to the east near the western rift valley. What is the name of this mountain range?

22. Natural Features: $500 Answer Mitumba Mountains

23. Economics: $100 Question This the regions most valuable MINERAL resource.

24. Economics: $100 Answer Copper Copper extraction in Zambia

25. Economics: $200 Question What are do most of the people in Zambia and Malawi do for a living?

26. Economics: $200 Answer They are subsistence farmers

27. Economics: $300 Question Because of this natural resource Gabon has the highest standard of living in the region.

28. Economics: $300 Answer OIL Oil workers in Gabon

29. Economics: $400 Question What are the most common crops in the Central African region?

30. Economics: $400 Answer Coffee, Corn, Bananas

31. Economics: $500 Question How has the continued warfare and ethnic fighting affected the economies of Central Africa?

32. Economics: $500 Answer Many men have died in the fighting and been taken out of the workforce to earn money. They would have earned more than the younger workers that are left. It has also destroyed land and resources. Rebel troops in the Congo

33. Challenges: $100 Question What two diseases are the most common cause of death in Central Africa?

34. Challenges: $100 Answer Malaria and AIDS

35. Challenges: $200 Question Because food production cannot keep up with the growing population, this is a result. (It is a vocabulary term)

36. Challenges: $200 Answer Malnutrition

37. Challenges: $300 Question Mining has harmful effects on the environment. What are the two problems that result from mining?

38. Challenges: $300 Answer It removes large areas of land and destroys the landscape

39. Challenges: $400 Question Even though many organizations are trying to stop the spread of Malaria by educating people and handing out nets with insecticides, what is the rate at which children are dying?

40. Challenges: $400 Answer A child in Central Africa dies every 30 seconds from Malaria Child with a net for his bed

41. Challenges: $500 Question Central Africa’s land holds the greatest potential for its people. What are two types projects that are being done to help.

42. Challenges: $500 Answer Projects to: Provide irrigation Prevent Erosion Irrigation in Malawi

43. The Culture: $100 Question What is the main reason This region speaks hundreds of different dialects of African languages in their EVERYDAY life?

44. The Culture: $100 Answer There is such a variety of ethnic groups

45. The Culture: $200 Question The official languages of the region are all what kind?

46. The Culture: $200 Answer European language… because of influence from their colonial times

47. The Culture: $300 Question Zambia is home to what two religions?

48. The Culture: $300 Answer Muslim, Hindu

49. The Culture: $400 Question Central Africa is famous for 3 things…what are they?

50. The Culture: $400 Answer Sculpture Carved Wooden Masks Beautiful gowns dyed in bright colors

51. The Culture: $500 Question In Central Africa 86% of the Population claim to be Christian. One type is common in the old English colonies, the other in the old French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies… what are the two types?

52. The Culture: $500 Answer Protestant Christianity in the English colonies. Roman Catholic in the French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies.

53. Final Jeopardy The Bantu Speakers migrated out of West Africa into Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa about 2000 years ago. Because of their movement there were important effects on those other regions. List the three main ways they changed the cultures in the new regions.

54. Final Jeopardy Answer 1.They brought their languages, which today resulted in over 500 different dialects of Bantu. 2.They brought and introduced new ways of growing food. 3.They made and used tools of iron and shared these ideas.