Places in Africa
What is the name of the southern most desert in Africa?
Kalahari
What is a forest with tall trees, warm climate, and lots of rain called?
rainforest
What is the action of clearing a wide area of trees?
deforestation
What body of water is North of Africa?
Mediterranean Sea
What is the longest river in Africa?
Nile
What is the name of the tallest mountain in Africa?
Mt. Kilimanjaro
What is an area of raised land that is flat on top called?
plateau
What is the process by which fertile land becomes a desert?
desertification
What ocean is East of Africa?
Indian
This river's mouth empties into the Atlantic ocean.
Niger
What is the name of the most southern part of Africa called?
Cape of good hope
What is the name of the huge desert that stretches across most of north Africa?
Sahara
What is a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water?
drought
What ocean is West of Africa?
Atlantic
This river is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa.
Zambezi
What is an imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres that runs through Africa called?
Equator
What is a grassy plain in tropical/subtropical regions, with few trees called?
Savanna
What is act of producing crops and raising livestock?
agriculture
What body of water is in-between Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
Red Sea
This river in Africa is the only major river to cross the equator twice.
Congo
What is the name of the geographical feature that runs through Northern Africa?
Atlas Mountains
What is the transitional area between the Sahara desert and the savannas in Africa called?
Sahel
What is a vast break in the Earth's surface that runs along east Africa?
The Great Rift Valley
What is the name of Africa's largest lake?
Victoria
What are the names of the two sources of the Nile?
Blue and White