a vast savanna that spreads across several countries in the interior of southern Africa.
What is the Veldt?
100
A barren desert stretches eight hundred miles along the Atlantic Coast.
What is Namib Desert?
100
Lake Victoria was the source of the longer of the two tributaries and was discovered in 1862 by John Speke, a British Officer.
What is the White Nile?
100
This peninsula is shaped like an animal horn.
What is the Horn of Africa?
100
Largest country in Africa
What is Sudan?
200
The northern border of modern South Africa.
What is Limpopo River?
200
This river rises in the southern part of this country and flows across southern Africa to the Indian Ocean, and is the fourth longest river in Africa and the longest in southern Africa.
What is the Zambia River?
200
Source of the White Nile.
What is Lake Victoria?
200
Hot, dry lowlands near the coast making up part of this desert. It sinks 509 feet below sea level, and is the lowest spot in Africa.
What is the Denakil Desert?
200
Two main branches of the Nile
What are the White Nile and the Blue Nile?
300
Located in the Drakensberg Mountains it is the largest mountain in southern Africa, rising to 11,424 feet.
What is Thabana Ntlenyana?
300
It's native name is "Mosioatunya", which means "the smoke that thunders". It lies on the Zambezi near the northwest corner.
What is Victoria Falls?
300
This massive volcanic peak is the highest mountain in Africa, rising to 19,340 feet and is located near the border with Kenya.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
300
These Highlands rise to 15,158 feet at Ras Dejen in the far north.
What are the Ethiopian Highlands?
300
Sudan originally referred to this region.
What is the entire region of the Sahel?
400
The 6th largest desert in the world, lies on the Tropic of Capricorn, much as the Sahara lies on the Tropic of Cancer.
What is the Kalahari Desert?
400
Beginning in the Middle East, this gash in the earth continues southward through East Africa; it is the most impressive feature.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
400
This feature has more large land animals than any other place on earth.
What is the Serengeti Plain?
400
A large marsh of shallow wetlands that cover an area the size of Maine, where much water is lost through evaporation.
What is the Sudd?
400
The Horn of Africa is the name for what peninsula.
What is Somali Peninsula?
500
Northern Botswana consists of several basins with no outlet to the sea. The largest basin creates this Delta.
What is the Okavango Delta?
500
The source of this tributary is at the Geesh Springs in the mountains of Ethiopia.
What is the Blue Nile?
500
Name the five of the famous African big-game animals that are now protected in the 5,700 square mile park.
What are lions, elephants, rhinoceroses, cape buffalos, and leopards?
500
The 20 mile wide entrance to the Red Sea
What is the Bab al-Mandeb?
500
Four nations that compose the Horn of Africa
What are Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia?