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- Fertility is?
- total number of births/1000 women of reproductive age
- Famine
- Sever temporal food shortage that may cause sudden and signicant increase in death rate
- Population issues arise in africa from what?
- Thomas Malthus:"1 percent gap"-difference between growth of food production and population growth, Julian Simon: Green Revolution-amount of arable land, and Mobility: push/pull factor
- The core areas of population distribution?
- West Coast, East African Highlands, Southern East coast.
- Mau Mau is..
- an uprising of the Kenyan natives agianst the colonail gov't that led to independence
- What are Escarpments?
- Series of Faulting and Rifting
- Total Fertility Rate is
- 5.6 in Africa
- The three main religions in africa?
- Islam, Christianity, and indigenous religions
- Economic Geography of Africa?
- 1.Farming-Cash crops 2. Natural Resourced ex wildlife tourism 3. Minerals 4. Limited Industrial base
- African Language:
- Mulitlingualism, and often unified by a lingua franca
- THe culture hearths of the world in africa is?
- West Africa and Nile Valley/Ethiopian plateau
- Land Tenure
- own, occupy, use
- Crude Birth rate:
- 39/1000
- Factors of fertility are?
- Social cultural, and biological (Fecundity)
- The three peaks in Africa?
- Kilmanjaro, Kenya, and Cameroon(all volcanic)
- Land Alienation
- one group taking land from another
- Chronic Hunger
- Persisten undernourishment, kills hundreds of millions-this is a bigger problem
- WHat is the largest fresh water lake that is not a rift valley lake?
- Victora
- Who was Jomo Kenyatta?
- Kenya leader of the natives, first prime minister of independence, later president-ruled 1963-1978
- What is Folding?
- Is a process in which the earths plates are pushed together creating a series of high points and low points.
- Crude Death rate:
- 17/1000
- The Colonizers of Africa?
- British, French, Germans, Italians, Belgians, Portuguese
- THe four major language families in Africa?
- Niger-Kordofanian, Nilo-Sahara, Khoisan, Afro-Asatic
- THe major crops of africa is:
- corn. yams, manioc, bananas
- The two small fold mountain ranges are:
- Atlas Mts, and Cape ranges
- Secound deepest lake in the world?
- Tanganyika
- WHat are the Five Major Rivers in Africa?
- Niger, Nile, Congo, Zambezi, Orange