Physical Geography
This supercontinent began breaking apart about 200 million years ago.
What is Pangaea
About this percentage of Africa lies between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
What is 90%?
Most African countries struggle to develop mineral resources because they lack this.
What is money/capital/resources?
Freshwater meeting seawater forms this feature.
What is an estuary?
This national park is famous for grasslands with lions, gazelles, and giraffes.
What is the Serengeti?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
Africa’s rainforests are located near this line of latitude.
What is the Equator?
This West African country is Africa’s largest oil producer.
What is Nigeria?
This dam was built to control the Nile’s flooding.
What is the Aswan High Dam?
This river is sometimes debated with the Nile as the longest in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
This is the largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This Arabic word means “shore of the desert.”
What is the Sahel?
This percentage of Nigeria’s income comes from oil.
What is 80–90%?
This lake stretches about 300 miles behind the Aswan High Dam.
What is Lake Nasser?
This feature forms where a river spreads out into branches before entering a body of water.
What is a delta?
This region of Africa contains the major Rift Valleys.
What is East Africa?
Over-farming is one of the main causes of this environmental problem.
What is desertification?
Over this many oil spills have occurred in Nigeria in the past 40 years.
What is over 10,000?
The Aswan High Dam increased farmable land by about this percentage.
What is about 50%?
This type of waterfall is also called a cataract.
What is rapids/waterfall?
This is the largest freshwater lake in Africa.
What is Lake Victoria?
Over this percentage of Africa’s rainforests have been destroyed by humans.
What is over 50%?
This African country depends heavily on oil exports.
What is Nigeria?
Because the dam stopped natural flooding, the soil became this.
What is less fertile?
Lake Victoria is the second-largest freshwater lake in the world behind this U.S. lake.
What is Lake Superior?