Chapter 15 Geography Study Guide

About 50 percent of the people of Angola practice _______.

• The Roman Catholic religion

• The protestant Religion.

• The Muslim Religion

• the Hindu religion

The Sotho, Zulu, and Xhosa are South Africa’s largest _______.

• Exclaves

• African ethnic groups

• political parties

• enclaves

Because its copper supplies dwindling, this country is encouraging its people to return farming.

• Malawi

• Zambia

• Namibia

• Angola

What island country of southern Africa has plants and wildlife found in no other country in the world?

• Mauritius

• Comoros

• Madagascar

• Cabinda

In South Africa, European groups created and spoke a language called _______.

• Afrikaans

• Portuguese

• Ndebele

• Shona

The Shona built a famous trading center in A.D. 1100s to 1400s called _______.

• The Kongo kingdom

• Khami Ruins

• the Great Escarpment

• Great Zimbabwe

In the Southern African country of Zimbabwe, the two largest ethnic groups are _______.

• Bantus and Afrikaners

• Shona and the Ndebele

• Sotho and Xhosa

• Zulus and Sotho

British Settlers went to South Africa in the 1800s after the discovery of _______.

• Gold and Diamonds

• Copper

• uranium

• Silver

From 1500s until 1975, Mozambique and Angola were the colonies of _______.

• The Netherlands

• The United Kingdom

• Portugal

• Germany

Most Africans in the country of South Africa trace their ancestry to

• Two clans

• Afrikaners

• Ndebele

• Bantu-Speaking people