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100

Cairo is the capital of what Northern African country?

What is Egypt?

100

Name one country that is completely enveloped by South Africa? (there are two)

What is Lesotho or Swaziland?

100

What is the capital of Mali?

What is Timbuktu?

100

What is the substance that furnishes nutrition to plants - it is adapted to support and nourish them?

What is soil?

100

Nelson Mandela was the president of which Southern African country from 1994 to 1999? 

What is South Africa?

200

What is the capital of Libya?

What is Tripoli?

200

What river runs through Southern Africa?

What is the Orange River?

200

What ocean borders Western Africa?

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

200

What is the altitudinal border above which a mountain is always covered in snow?

What is the snowline?

200

What river, located in Africa, is the longest in the world?

What is the Nile River?

300

Which Northern African country has NO capital?

What is Western Sahara?

300

Windhoek is the capital of which Southern African country?

What is Namibia?

300

The equator runs above or below Western Africa?

What is below?

300

What is a small point of land running into the sea - a long narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea?

What is a spit?

300

There are many deserts in Africa, which is the largest?

What is the Sahara desert?

400

What body of water borders the Northern African countries of Egypt and Sudan?

What is the Red Sea?

400

Which TWO oceans border Southern Africa?

What are the (South) Atlantic and Indian Oceans?
400

Name ONE country that is completely landlocked. (there are three)

What is Mali, Niger, or Burkina Faso?

400

What is any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon?

What is a slope?

400
Are elephants, mountain gorillas, or lions found more often throughout all of Africa?
What are elephants?
500

What Northern African country almost (but doesn't) touch Spain?

What is Morocco?

500

What is the capital of Botswana?

Mbabane, Gaborone, or Pretoria

What is Gaborone?

500

Dakar is the capital of what Western African country?

What is Senegal?

500

What is a narrow passage of water - a strait between the mainland and an isle?

What is a sound?

500

What famous man, who founded the School of Navigation, started methodically mapping the coast of Africa beginning in 1434?

Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

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