Physical Geography
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100
This is the largest lake in Africa.
What is Lake Victoria?
100
This refers to the dividing and colonization of Africa in the 1800's.
What is the African Scramble?
100
This is an inactive volcano located in East Africa on the Serengeti Plains.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
100
80% of the world's malaria cases occur on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
This is the region where the Bantu Migrations started.
What is West Africa?
200
This is the deepest lake in Africa.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
200
When European leaders gathered to divide up Africa for colonization and trade it was called this.
What is the 1884 Berlin Conference?
200
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
200
This is how malaria is spread.
What are mosquitos?
200
This region was home to Nelson Mandela.
What is Southern Africa?
300
This is the main climate of North Africa that lies along a large body of water.
What is Mediterranean Climate?
300
This area was discovered by Louis and Mary Leakey.
What is the Olduvai Gorge?
300
This is the flat grassland; home to many wild animals; located between Kenya and Tanzania.
What is the Serengeti Plain?
300
DAILY DOUBLE(Worth 600 points) This will be the largest hydroelectric project in Africa upon its completion.
What is GERD?
300
This region depends heavily on tourism(the Serengeti Plain and Kilimanjaro)
What is Eastern Africa?
400
This is located in East Africa, Horn of Africa is slowly pulling away and has many volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is The Great Rift Valley?
400
DAILY DOUBLE (Worth 800 points) The spread of West African culture throughout Africa.
What is the Bantu Migration?
400
This is where there is no formal government.
What is a Stateless Society?
400
This is the leading source of water for the North flowing Nile River.
What is the Blue Nile?
400
In this region King Leopold II of Belgium ran the Congo as his private property. The region was colonized by France and Belgium.
What is Central Africa?
500
DAILY DOUBLE (WORTH 1000 points) This is the nickname of the lakes that sit atop pockets of CO2 that could explode at anytime.
What are the "Killer Lakes"?
500
He led the fight against aprtheid despite being in prison from 1962-1990.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
500
They mapped and explored Africa in the 1400's.
Who are the Portuguese?
500
Of Ethiopia's rural population (which makes up 85% of its total population) this percentage has access to electricity.
What is less than 2%?
500
This region has persistent problems with piracy, warfare and famine. Home of the Horn of Africa.
What is Eastern Africa?
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