Physical Features
This is the largest desert in the world, covering most of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
What type of climate would describe a rainforest?
What is a Tropical Climate?
This physical features is home to a wide variety of animals and is a large grassland.
What is the Savannas?
This country is located at the most southern tip of Africa.
What is South Africa?
The removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.
What is Deforestation?
This mountain range separates the Mediterranean sea from the Sahara Desert.
What is the Atlas Mountains?
What type of climate would describe a desert?
What is an Arid or Semi-Arid Climate?
This is the LONGEST river in the entire world.
The Niger river flows through and ends in this country.
What is Nigeria?
The process by which fertile land slowly expands into desert.
What is Desertification?
This is the second-largest lake in the entire world.
What is Lake Victoria?
This climate is what we considered a mixture. It is to dry to support trees, but dry enough to be considered a desert.
What is a Steppe Climate?
Rising 19,340 feet above sea level, it is the tallest mountain in Africa and the world’s highest free-standing mountain.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
The Nile river ends in this country. It also happens to be the home of the Great Pyramids.
What is Egypt?
The lack of fresh water resources to meet the standard water demand.
What is Water Scarcity?
This physical feature is slowly becoming the Sahara Desert, due to desertification.
What is the Sahel?
Due to its strong rapids and waterfalls, no ships travel along this river. Nor can people.
What is the Congo River?
This desert is just a sandy savanna. It receives more rainfall than any other desert.
What is the Kalahari Desert?
This country is south of Egypt and north of Lake Victoria.
What is Sudan?
Any contamination of water with chemicals or other hazardous substances that are detrimental to human, animal, or plant health.
What is Water Pollution?
The entire Congo Basin is home to this physical feature. It is rapidly declining from deforestation.
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
This river is the main water source for West Africa. It's entire population lives along the river to survive.
What is the Niger River?
The earth's tectonic plates shifted and pulled apart causing this physical feature. It is truly one of a kind.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
This country is south of Sudan and east of Lake Victoria.
What is Kenya?
A farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest.
What is Slash and Burn?