Short Answers:
1. At what point are the continents of Africa and Europe only about 8 miles apart?
Strait of Gibraltar
6. What is the major religion of Egypt?
Islam
2. Why was Africa known as the "Dark Continent"?
little was known about it
7. What is Africa's largest lake and the world's second largest body of fresh water?
a. Lake Chad
b. Lake Nyasa (Malawi)
c. Lake Tanganyika
d. Lake Victoria
d. Lake Victoria
3. What is Africa's highest peak?
Mt. Kilimanjaro
8. What of the following is NOT true about the Suez Canal?
a. Egypt depends upon the canal for much of its national income.
b. The canal has been closed only twice since its completion in 1869.
c. The canal is controlled by the British government.
d. The canal separates Asia from Africa.
c. The canal is controlled by the British government.
4. What is Africa's largest desert?
Sahara
9. What is the world's longest river?
a. Niger
b. Nile
c. Zambezi
d. Congo
b. Nile
5. What Egyptians dam allows year-round irrigation of farmland in the Nile Valley?
Aswan High Dam
10. What is Africa's most dramatic geographic feature?
a. Atlas Mountains
b. Eastern Rift System
c. Great Escarpment
d. Serengeti Plain
b. Eastern Rift System