Landforms
It's the tallest mountain in all of Africa.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
The two oceans that border Africa. (Give the coasts, too: western and eastern.)
What are the Atlantic Ocean on the western coast and the Indian Ocean on the eastern coast?
They are the two most commonly practiced religions in Africa. (Give them as 1st and 2nd most practiced.)
What is Christianity (1st) and Islam (2nd)?
It's the country and major city under #5.
What is Egypt and Cairo?
Whether in ancient times or today, these are two ways Africans have always used the Nile River.
What is for transportation/trade and farming/food?
They're called basins.
What are the huge, low-lying areas called where rivers flow to the ocean?
It's the LARGEST lake in all of Africa.
What is Lake Victoria?
They are the two most commonly spoken languages in Africa.
What are Arabic and Swahili?
It's the newest country in the world, under #4. (Give the year it was formed, as well.)
What is South Sudan, 2011?
This term refers to the 155-mile stretch of rich soil at the end of the Nile, great for farming.
What is a delta?
It's the smaller desert found in the southern part of Africa.
What is the Kalahari Desert?
Found in rivers, these kept Europeans from accessing the interior of Africa for many years.
What are rapids? (Or cataracts, or waterfalls.)
They're just two of the commonly believed stereotypes we have debunked about Africa. (Name any 2 of the 10 we covered.)
What is: Mr. Fauth will judge this one.
It's the country with one of the oldest Christian organizations in the world under #3.
What is Ethiopia?
It's the lake and country where the source of the Blue Nile can be found.
What is Lake Tana in Ethiopia?
It's the bordering region that is mostly made up of land that is not well suited to farming. (I'm looking for two answers here.)
What are the Sahel and marginal land?
Built in 1970, this hydroelectric dam helps form Lake Nasser, one of the largest reservoirs in the world.
What is the Aswan High Dam?
These two countries remained undefeated in the face of European invasions. (Give their names and the reasons.)
What are Ethiopia (Emperor Salassie & military strategies) and Liberia (a U.S.-established colony)?
It's the country and major city located under #2.
What is South Africa and Cape Town?
It's the lake and country where the source of the White Nile can be found.
What is Lake Victoria in Uganda?
They are three types of landforms found in the Sahara. (I'm looking for their names and what they're made of.)
What are ERGS (huge sand dunes), REGS (gravel-covered plains), and HAMMADAS (high, rock-covered flatlands?)
They are the three ways in which an oasis can be formed.
What are: bubbling up to the surface, where land dips down to an exposed stream, or man-made drilled wells?
These are just two of the details we learned about the Tuareg nomads of the Sahara.
What are their long, blue robes, families of 90 that can move in 2 hrs, using animals for trade & transport, camels especially, etc...?
It's the country and major city located under #1.
What is Nigeria and Lagos?
The confluence of the White and Blue branches of the Nile meet in this capital city. (City and country.)
What is Khartoum, Sudan?