Rivers
Longest river in Africa.
What is the Nile?
Lush green area in the midst of a desert, centered around a natural spring or a well and may be the only place where trees such as date palms grow for miles around.
What is an oasis?
Large area of level land that is higher than the surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
Located on the west bank of the Nile River this valley is where the tombs of Pharaohs were constructed during the New Kingdom.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
Rocky point on the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula that sticks out from southwestern Africa into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
Largest River in CENTRAL Africa located close to the equator and named after the ancient Kingdom located there.
What is the Congo River?
The Trade Route through which caravans traveled the Sahara Desert to making trade possible between the ports of North Africa and the southern Savanna territories.
What is the Trans Saharan Trade Route?
The circle marking 23.5 degrees south where the sun is directly overhead at noon on December 21st.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
The location of the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx.
What is Giza?
One of the three capital cities of South Africa.
What is Pretoria?
What is Cape Town?
What is Bloemfontein?
Longest River in South Africa, rising in the Drakensburg mountains and flowing west to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Oranger River?
The largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
The circle marking where the sun is directly overhead at the equinoxes.
What is the Equator?
This object was named after the town where it was found in 1799 by French soldiers building a fort. Written in hieroglyphics, demotic and greek it was the key to help us decipher the ancient Egyptian script.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The Afrikaans term for field.
What is veld?
The tributary to the world's longest river , known for its grey-bluish color it erodes from the fertile soil in the highlands of Ethiopia.
What is the Blue Nile?
This desert has the highest sand dunes and is considered to be one of the oldest desert in the world.
What is the Namib Desert?
The circle marking the latitude of 23.5 degrees north, where the sun is directly overhead at noon on June 21st.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the start of the Nile Delta.
What is Memphis?
The only country in Africa completely surround by another country.
What is Lesotho?
The Orange River forms a border between these two countries.
What are South Africa and Namibia?
Some scientists do not consider this to be a true desert because it can receive more than 10 inches of precipitation in a year.
What is the Kalahari Desert?
Dry band of land that separates the desert from the Savanna.
What is the Sahel?
Now known as Luxor, this is the capital of Ancient Egypt (in Upper Egypt) and is were the Karnak temple complex is located and Open festival occurred.
Thebes
This plateau edge separates the highland from the narrow coastal strip with steep slopes, extending northeastward into Zimbabwe and northwestward into Namibia and Angola.
What is the Great Escarpment?