South Africa Terms Exam

The region in West and Central Africa that forms a changing climate zone between the dry Sahara to the North and humid savannas to the south.

• Colonialism

• Sahel

A steep slope or cliff

between a higher and lower land surface.

• Escarpment

• subsistence farming

Traditional type of farming where the goal is to produce just enough to eat for a family or a village to survive.

• Urbanization

• subsistence farming

Policy of strict separation of the races adopted in South Africa in the 1940's.

• Apartheid

• Sahel

an overthrow of a government by force.

• Overgrazing

• Coup d' etat

The movement of people from rural areas into cities

• Sahel

• Urbanization

 A system by which a

country maintains colonies

outside its borders

• Colonialism

• Great Rift Valley

A large waterfall

• Apartheid

• Cataract

Process in which arable land is turned into desert, usually due to destruction of vegetation.

• Desertification

• Kinship

A way of life in which people raise cattle, sheep, or goats as their main economic activity.

• Bantu

• Pastoralism