Deserts
African Countries and Leaders
Mountains
African Geographical Features
Miscellaneous
100
This desert is found on the continent of Australia.
What is the Australian Desert?
100
President Anwar Sadat of this country made them the first Arab nation to make peace with Israel.
What is Egypt?
100
This continent is the most mountainous of all of the continents.
What is Asia?
100
This swamp is the world’s largest swamp.
What is the Sudd?
100
This is the name given to the short descendants of the original inhabitants of the Congo region.
What is Pygmy?
200
This desert is the coldest in the world, outside of Antarctica.
What is the Gobi?
200
This country is the location of Serengeti National Park.
What is Tanzania?
200
This word means the height of a mountain above sea level.
What is altitude?
200
This man named Lake Victoria for his queen.
Who is David Livingstone?
200
The Andes mountain chain is found on this continent.
What is South America?
300
This great desert area is found in western North America.
What is the Great Basin?
300
This emperor of Ethiopia began a program to modernize his country and allowed the country to make much progress before being overthrown by Communists.
Who is Haile Selassie I?
300
This word is used to describe a volcano that is inactive or "sleeping".
What is dormant?
300
This country is the location of the Drakensberg Mountains.
What is South Africa?
300
This was the name given to the Dutch colonists who came to South Africa to farm in the late 1600’s.
What is the Boers?
400
This desert's name means "If you go in, you will not come out."
What is the Taklimakan?
400
This man was the first black president of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
You can find North America's highest peak in this American state.
What is Alaska?
400
This is the source of the White Nile River, a tributary of the world's longest river.
What is Lake Victoria?
400
The Commonwealth of Nations includes this country and about 52 nations that were once her colonies.
What is Great Britain?
500
This is the desert where you will find a wandering desert tribe called the Bushmen.
What is the Kalahari?
500
This is name of the dictator who took over the country known as the Congo and tried to remove all foreign influences, even requiring people to change their Christian names to African ones.
Who is Joseph Mobutu?
500
The Great Dividing Range is found in this country.
What is Australia?
500
This country’s king ordered David Livingstone to trace the Congo River to its source.
What is Belgium?
500
This peak found in the Swiss-Italian Alps is often climbed by daring mountaineers.
What is the Matterhorn?
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