Mad Maps
This map created in 1560's is still used today
What is the Mercator Map?
This African country is connected to Asia by a land bridge
What is Egypt
This valley near the Ethiopian Highlands is known as the birthplace of our species
What is the Great Rift Valley
The economy of this landlocked country depends heavily on one natural resource: diamonds
What is Botswana
The camel can go this long without water
What is 17 days
The reason it is so hard to create an accurate map
What is the spherical shape of our planet
Africa is the ______ largest continent in the world
What is the second
This semi-arid transition zone's name means "shore"
What is the Sahel
This West African country is partly Sahel, partly Savanna and partly Rainforest
What is Nigeria
This is how the ruler of the Ghana kingdom controlled the price of gold
What is holding on to all large nuggets
Equal-area projections show correct sizes, but distort this.
What are shapes and directions north-south.
Egypt was one of the earliest African civilizations to have contact with Greek civilization because of its location on this body of water
What is the Mediterranean Sea
These gravelly prehistoric seabeds make up 70% of the terrain of the Sahara Desert while sand dunes make up only 20%
What are regs
Tanzania borders this largest of Africa's Great Lakes
What is Lake Victoria
This mineral allowed the early people of West Africa to farm efficiently and conquer neighboring peoples
What is iron
When maps of America were created, they ignored this
What are all Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western
What is the Serengeti (part of the Savanna region)
Cameroon's economy relies on these two resources, as well as foreign aid
What are oil and cocoa
This country was the first foreign power to set up its own gold trading post in West Africa in the 1400s
What is Portugal
These two countries' maps each show the Kashmir region as belonging to them
What are India and Pakistan
This body of water separates Morocco from Spain
What are the Straits of Gibraltar
This area had early nautical trade with parts of southern Asia and the Middle East
What is the Swahili Coast
This country is home to the Atlas Mountains which separate its coast from the Sahara
What is Morocco
This is the reason salt was "worth its weight in gold" in West Africa
What is its ability to preserve food