Download Africa EOTT Review Economy: What is Literacy rate? Based on what

Africa EOTT Review
Economy:
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What is Literacy rate?
Based on what you know about their literacy rates, which country has a higher standard of living?
What is the total value of all goods and services produced within a country in a single year called?
Which African country has a higher GDP? What does this say about the country’s economy?
What is Nigeria’s main export?
Nigeria is focusing on the oil industry. How is this hurting Nigeria’s overall economy?
Nigeria was formerly a military dictatorship. What type of economic system did the country have under
military rule?
8. In which areas has South Africa specialized?
9. What economic struggles do both countries face?
10. What reasons might contribute to lower literacy rates among girls than boys in Africa?
11. What is Gross Domestic Product?
12. What are capital goods?
13. What is Human capital?
14. What is an entrepreneur?
15. What type of economic system encourages entrepreneurship?
16. What is a mixed economy?
17. What is a traditional economy?
18. What does a market economy allow its business owners the ability to do?
Governments
19. How was Apartheid created in South Africa?
20. What role did Nelson Mandela play in ending Apartheid?
21. What was the role of F.W. de Klerk in Apartheid?
22. What is the government system of Nigeria? Kenya? South Africa?
23. What is the difference between a Federation and Confederation system of government?
24. Who makes government decisions in an Oligarchy?
25. Who makes government decisions in an autocracy?
26. What is the difference between A Presidential and a Parliamentary democracy?
27. Who holds power in a Parliamentary democracy?
28. What might the leader of an autocracy be called?
29. What would the leader of a Monarchy be called?
30. What are the rights of citizens in a democracy?
Physical Geography
31. What is the longest river in the world?
32. What is the largest lake in Africa?
33. What is the largest desert in Africa?
34. What is the highest mountain in Africa?
35. Why is farming almost impossible without irrigation?
36. What is the Sahel and what is happening to it?
37. What factors led to this problem in the Sahel?
38. What threatens the extinction of African Rainforests?
39. How did the Aswan Dam impact farming and water supplies?
40. What impact has pollution had on Africa’s water supply?
41. What is the Green line?
Religious and Ethnic groups
42. What is Cultural Diffusion?
43. What is an Ethnic Group? Religious Group?
44. What is one characteristic that differentiates a Religious group from an Ethnic group?
45. Identify and differentiate between Arab, Ashanti, Bantu, and Swahili.