Africa: Geography

Vocabulary

100

What is a large, level area that rises above the surrounding land; has ta least one side with a steep slope?

Plateau

200

What is the height of land above sea level?

Elevation

300

What is a deep crack in Earth's surface?

Rift

400

What is a river or stream that flows into a larger river?

Tributary

500

What is rich in the substances plants need to grow well?

Fertile

More Vocabulary

100

What is to bring water to your crops manually?

irrigate

200

What is a period time with little or no rain?

Drought

300

What is an area in the middle of the desert where there is water and some vegetation?

Oasis

400

What is the most common vegetation region in Africa?

Savanna

500

What is a person who has no home and travels from place to place to make a living?

Nomad

Land and Water

100

What is Africa's largest mountain?

What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?

200

What makes the land around rivers fertile?

What is the silt left behind by flooding?

300

Near what land form are most of Africa's major lakes located?

What is the Great Rift Valley?

400

What are the names of the four major rivers in Africa?

What are the Niger, Nile, Zambezi, and the Congo?

500

Why can't ships sail all the way from Africa's interior to the sea?

What are waterfalls, steep rapids or cataracts that make travel impossible?

Climate and Vegetation

100

Name one of the three types of vegetation regions in Africa.

What are savanna, tropical rain forest, and deserts?

200

Name one (1) of the three (3) key factors that influence climate in Africa.

What is distance from the Equator, elevation, and nearness to large bodies of water and major land forms.

300

Most of the nomads who live in the Sahara are:

What are herders?

400

What is the name of the area in between the desert and the savanna?

Sahel

500

The bite of this can kill cattle or cause sleeping sickness in humans

tsetse fly

Religion

100

What do Christianity, Judaism and Islam have in common?

monotheistic

200

Which religion began first?

Judaism

300

Which religion uses the book Quran?

Islam

400

What is the place of worship called for Jews?

synagogue

500

What is the Holy Place for all three religions?

Jerusalem