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Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

Which continent is also known as the 'Dark Continent'?

  1. Australia

  2. South America

  3. Africa

  4. Europe
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
Europe did not know much about Africa until the 19th century, but that answer is misleading and disingenuous. Europeans had known quite a lot about Africa for at least 2,000 years, but because of powerful imperial impulses, European leaders began purposefully ignoring earlier sources of information.

At the same time, the campaign against slavery and for missionary work in Africa actually intensified Europeans’ racial ideas about African people in the 1800s. They called Africa the Dark Continent, because of the mysteries and the savagery they expected to find in the “Interior."
Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

Which of the following country of the African continent is an Arab republic?

  1. Kenya

  2. South Africa

  3. Egypt

  4. Zimbabwe
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

22 countries are Arab countries with people who are considered Arabs by Arabs. Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen are the only Arab countries.

Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

Which of the following is not true of the Sahara Region?

  1. Once there existed good number of rivers and dense vegetation and the area experienced a good amount of rainfall

  2. Dates are grown in abundance here

  3. Days are very hot and nights are very cold
  4. Rainfall in Sahara region exceeds $23$ inches per year
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The Sahara is a hyper-arid desert where annual rainfall is typically well below 5 inches, not exceeding 23 inches. The other options correctly describe its historical climate, agricultural practices, and extreme diurnal temperature variations.

Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

Africa is a hot continent, because __________.

  1. There are many volcanoes

  2. There is a great Sahara desert

  3. The greater part of the continent lies within the equatorial type of climate

  4. This is a big producer of spices
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Africa mainly lies within the intertropical zone between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Only the northernmost and the southernmost fringes of the continent have a Mediterranean climate because they aren't located under the tropics. Because of this geographical situation, Africa is a hot continent as the solar radiation intensity is always high. Thus, warm and hot climates prevails all over Africa but the northern part is the most marked part by aridity and high temperatures."

Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

Which of the following has merged with Tanganyika to from the present Tanzania?

  1. Zimbabwe

  2. Deccan region

  3. Zanzibar

  4. Zambia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Tanganyika officially joined with the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar on Union Day, 26 April 1964. The new state changed its name to the United Republic of Tanzania within a year.