Reading Maps
Vocabulary
Mountains and Deserts
Relief
Random
100
Name 1 country that borders Algeria.
Possible Answers: Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mali, Western Sahara, Morocco
100
What is the equator?
The line of latitude at 0 degrees.
100
True or false: Deserts are formed by little to no rainfall.
True
100
Does the Southeastern part of Ethiopia have low or high relief?
Low relief.
100
What does high relief mean?
When an area has high elevation.
200
Name 1 African country that borders the Mediterranean Sea.
Possible Answers: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt
200
What is the prime meridian?
The line of longitude at 0 degrees.
200
What are the two types of crust of the Earth?
Continental crust and oceanic crust.
200
Does the Central Northern part of Ethiopia have high or low relief?
High relief.
200
What does low relief mean?
An area that has low elevation.
300
Name 2 countries that border Chad.
Possible Answers: Libya, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger
300
What is relief?
The elevation of a place.
300
How can volcanoes form mountains?
The eruption then cooling of lava that hardens and layers overtime.
300
What is the elevation of Gonder?
Between 1600-4600 meters.
300
What color represents 1-260 meters.
Dark Green.
400
Name 2 African countries that border the Atlantic Ocean.
Possible Answers: Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Ginuea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola, Namibia, South Africa
400
What is high air pressure?
Heavy air that pushes warm air downward (causes dry conditions, no clouds, little rainfall).
400
How are fold mountains formed?
When two continental plates collide.
400
What is the elevation of Awasa?
Between 1600-1900 meters.
400
Which color represents 1300-1600 meters on the map?
Orange.
500
Name 2 African counties at the Tropic of Cancer.
Possible Answers: Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, Libya, Niger, Chad, Egypt
500
What is low air pressure?
Light air that pushes cold air upward forming clouds and causing precipitation.
500
How are deserts formed?
When rain is blocked from an area (higher air pressure or rain shadows)
500
What is the elevation of Arba Minch?
Between 1000-1600 meters.
500
Name 2 countries that border Lake Chad.
Possible Answers: Niger, Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon