Landmarks
The largest hot desert on earth.
What is the Sahara?
The most modern and developed country in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is South Africa?
This Saharan river flows to the North.
What is the Nile?
The Tropic of Cancer passes entirely through this region.
What is a desert?
This process is causing the expansion of the Sahara.
What is desertification?
This region was created by a divergent boundary.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
This country, located in the Sahara, is home to one of the worlds most famous ancient civilization.
What is Egypt?
Like the Amazon, this river helps to support a tropical rain forest.
What is the Congo?
This region has a tropical wet climate.
What is the Congo rainforest?
This agricultural practice contributes to climate change and the collapse of rainforest ecosystems.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
Africa's tallest mountain.
It's name translates to "The Ivory Coast."
What is Côte d’Ivoire?
This tributary of a major river has its source at Lake Tana in Ethiopia.
What is the Blue Nile?
This region is developing a tropical wet and dry climate.
What is the Sahel?
This tectonic process is responsible for the creation of the Great Rift Valley.
What is divergent plate tectonics?
The world's largest waterfall.
What are Victoria Falls?
The location of highlands near the Great Rift Valley.
Where is Ethiopia?
This formation interferes with shipping on most of Africa's major rivers.
What are cataracts?
This desert region can be found in the southwest portion of Africa.
What is the Kalahari?
The action of these two tectonic plates is responsible for the isolation of mountain regions in Africa.
What are the Somali and Nubian plates?
Southern Africa's largest mountain range.
What are the Drakensburg Mountains?
This country is home to the modern-day pirates who took the Maersk Alabama hostage.
What is Somalia?
The type of political boundary that can be formed by a river or other natural geographic feature.
What is a physical boundary?
Over half of Africa is this type of Vegetation region.
What is grassland (or savannah)?
This feature of western coastal Africa prevents the presence of bays and harbors for commercial shipping.
What are escarpments?