Africa 21.1
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quiztime101 on March 31, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 AIDS/HIV | a worldwide disease caused by a virus that is spread from person to person that has reached epidemic proportions in the region, has drastically cut the average life expectancy as a result of the lack of treatment |
| subsistence farming | small-scale agriculture that provides primarily for the needs of just a family or village that most Africans in this part of the region engage in, after needs met often sell any extra harvest or animals at a local market for case or trade for other items they need or want |
| commercial farming | small percentage of the population works at this in which farms produce crops on a large scale, these cash crops grown to be sold for profit instead of used by the farmer |
| sanitation | disposal of waste products, only a third of rural Africans have clean water to drink and only a fourth live where this is adequate, diseases such as malaria widespread and insects transmit viruses to people and animals |
| life expectancy | fallen quickly because of AID + quiz |
| ethic diversity | very diverse population in both urban and rural areas, home to more ethnic groups than any other continent, some 3000 make up the population; include Europeans, South Asians, Arabs people of mixed backgrounds |
| border issues | people known as Sena travel up Zambezi to sell fish and buy needed items like nets at markets in Malawi, example of how country borders separate people politically but o not usually disturb daily patterns of life |
| urbanization | movement of people from rural areas to cities, has the world's fastest rate of this, growing so rapidly, better job opportunities, health care and public services although one of the least urbanized regions in the world with only 30 percent of the population living in cities |
| service centers | convenient business locations for rural dwellers who travel there by foot, bus or boat that areas once made up villages and towns have mushroomed into as cities have been caused to spread out into the countryside |
| Kinshasa/Johannesburg | see quiz: Kinshasa on the southern bank of the Congo River is the political, cultural and economic hub of the DR of Congo; Johannesburg South African inland city that owes its origins and growth to the mining of gold |
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