Landforms
The longest River in the world
What is the Nile River
South Africa is the world’s largest producer of ____________________, an element used in stainless steel.
What is Chromium?
The largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
Grassland in Tanzania.
What is the Serengeti Plain?
A process that threatens the Sahel.
What is desertification?
A steep slope marking the edge of the continent's plateau in South Africa.
What is the Great Escarpment?
Responsible for depleting Africa's forest.
What is logging?
Name 3 deserts in Africa.
What is the Sahara, Kalahari, & Namib?
Outermost layer of branches, 150 ft. high.
What is Canopy?
What is the discovery of oil?
The continent’s most distinctive landforms are in East Africa. This area contains long, thin valleys.
What are rift valleys?
The most important economic activity in Africa.
What is agriculture?
How long can camels go without water?
What is 17 days
Vegetation typical of Central Africa.
What is Tropical rain forest?
Created Lake Nasser.
What is the Aswan High Dam?
Africa contains mainly volcanic mountains. Mount Kenya and ____________________, Africa’s highest peak, are both volcanoes.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
The second most profitable resource in Africa.
What is coffee?
How long can dry spells last in desert regions.
What is 5-6 years?
Danger that comes from the slash-and-burn farming method?
What is rainforest gradually disappear?
How to slow desertification.
What is tree planting, efficient land use?
Africa's most prominent physical feature?
What is a plateau?
Africa's current leader in oil.
What is Nigeria?
True or False?
Rainfall is heaviest near the equator.
What is True?
The ____________________ of West Africa sprouts up along river banks in swamps and river deltas.
What is the Mangrove tree?
Negative effects of the Aswan High Dam.
What is decreased soil fertility, salt in soil, disease?