What is elevation?
The height above or below sea level.
What type of lines are on a topographic map?
Contour lines
a) Marka
b) Joyce
c) Bakwa
d) Saria
a) Marka (Amina's grandmother
b) Joyce (Elisa's mother)
c) Bakwa (Amina's mother)
d) Saria (Aida's mother)
To give out to someone/tell them off.
a) glare
b) frown
c) scold
d) squint
c) scold
What area of Africa has an elevation below sea level?
a)Angola Plateau
b) Adis Ababa
c) Qattara Depression
d) Lagos
c) Qattara Depression
Lines which indicate the difference in elevation between adjorning contour lines are called what?
Intervals
Who was Karama?
He was Amina's younger brother.
very large, very wide.
a) brief
b) vast
c) plot
b) vast
Which country contains the most mountain peaks on the map?
a) Zambia
b) Cameroon
c) Ethiopia
d) Kenya
d) Kenya
Who was the first to excavate the ruins of the buried towns: Karl Weber or Giussepe Fiorelli?
Karl Webber (1749)
Guissepe Fiorelli (1863)
What did the Hausa people call the walls around Amina's camp?
daily
Name the 7 colours of the key on the elevation map of Africa.
White
Brown
Green
Orange
Yellow
Blue
Purple
What does a steep gradient mean?
The area has a quick rise from a low elevation to a higher elevation.
What did Amina use to grind the grain?
A pestle and mortar
What colour indicates that the elevation of that area is between 305 and 610m?
How high is the peak of Mt. Vesuvius?
a) 1,240m
b) 1,420m
c) 1,040m
d) 1,200m
a) 1,240m
a) 70
b) 72
c) 76
d) 79
c) 76