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Economics South African History Miscellaneous

Modern Day Challenges

Question: Which type of democracy has the executive and legislative branch combined?

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Government for 1

Answer: parliamentary democracy

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Government for 1

Question: If Kenya’s government has all government power centralized in the federal government, what type of government does Kenya have?

Government for 2

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Answer: unitary government

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Question: DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! How is the president of South Africa elected?

Government for 3

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Answer: South Africa is a parliamentary democracy so the people vote for members of Parliament and the party with the largest representation in Parliament elects the president of South Africa.

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Question: What type of democracy does Kenya have and who is its current leader?

Government for 4

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Answer: presidential democracy. Uhuru Kenyatta is the current president.

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Question: Compare and contrast a unitary government and an autocracy.

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Answer: in a unitary government, power is centralized in one government body with many government workers across the three branches (i.e. the central or federal government). Unitary governments are usually democracies (high citizen participation). An autocracy does not deal with how power is distributed, but rather how citizens are able to participate. Since an autocracy is a government in which one person has all the power, citizens are not able to participate. The similarity is that they both have the number one in their definition.

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Question: What does it mean to diversify an economy?

Economics for 1

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Answer: to not specialize in one resource or financial sector (agriculture, service, industry) too much.

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Question: Tourism is an important part of South Africa’s economy but its abundance of which natural resources also help its GDP?

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Answer: gold and diamonds

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Economics for 3

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Question: South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria all have what type of economy?

Answer: mixed

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Question: Of the countries we have studied (Kenya, South Africa, and Nigeria), which has an economy does not rely heavily on tourism?

Economics for 4

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Economics for 4

Answer: Nigeria

Question: Why do so many people live under a dollar a day in Nigeria even though the country has such a wealth in oil?

Economics for 5

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Answer: Nigeria overly specialized in oil and did not diversify its economy by investing in other government sectors like agriculture. When oil prices went down, the country’s GDP took a huge hit. The country has also struggled with corruption and military rule.

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Economics for 5

Question: In what year did apartheid officially end?

South African History for 1

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Answer: 1994

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South African History for 1

South African History for 2

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Question: Which two men were responsible for ending apartheid?

Answer: F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela

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South African History for 2

South African History for 3

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Question: Why did the Great Trek occur?

Answer: the Dutch wanted to escape the rule of the British and establish their own territories.

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South African History for 3

Question: If you meet an Afrikaner today, from which country are they descended?

South African History for 4

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Answer: the Netherlands (they are Dutch descendants)

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Question: Which party established apartheid and in what year? Which group of people primarily made up this party?

South African History for 5

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Answer: The National Party in 1948. Afrikaners made up the majority of the National Party.

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Question: What caused a mass migration of young boys and girls from Sudan into Ethiopia and Kenya in the 1980s?

Modern Day Issues for 1

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Answer: civil war.

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Question: What are the effects of food shortages in countries like Zimbabwe and Angola?

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Answer: famine

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Question: Which African country has one of the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates?

Modern Day Issues for 3

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Answer: South Africa

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Question: What is one of the best indicators of whether a country will have a high literacy rate?

Modern Day Issues for 4

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Answer: a high GDP and a stable government.

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Question: Why did South Sudan become its own country in 2011?

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Answer: there had been a civil war in Sudan since it gained its independence in 1956 because Northern Sudanese people are mostly Muslim and Southern Sudanese people are mot Christian and animist. They also fought over natural resources since those (esp. oil) are not evenly distributed in the country.

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Question: In the 1980s several countries stopped trading with South Africa because of its apartheid policy. This is an example of which type of trade barrier?

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Answer: embargo

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Question: Kenya’s cities are bustling with business. What language would be used in business transactions?

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Answer: Swahili

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Question: Why do countries impose tariffs?

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Answer: to protect domestically produced goods.

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Miscellaneous for 4

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Question: Ladipo Balogun opened a restaurant in Lamu, a city on the southeastern coast of Kenya. When the restaurant opened, there was not much tourism, but Balogun believed the town could become popular. Balogun opened the restaurant so he could make money and to provide jobs for several people in the city. Balogun is an example of what economic term?

Answer: an entrepreneur

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Question: What is one economic achievement that an African country has made?

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Answer: Examples:-South Africa has done a good job diversifying its economy (services [tourism] and industries like mining, thus raising its GDP

-Kenya has heavily invested in human capital so it has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa

-Botswana has a high GDP from its diamond industry and it uses some of that money to help combat AIDS.

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