Show:
Rivers & Lakes
Desserts & Deserts
Bodies of Water
Mountains and Valleys
Mountains & Lakes & Basins
100
Regarded the longest river in the world, this waterway runs through ten African countries.
What is The Nile River?
100
After the Arctic and Antarctica, this hot desert is the largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
100
Named from the Latin meaning "middle of the land", this body of water connects to the Atlantic Ocean via the Straits of Gibraltar.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
These mountain ranges named for a second-generation Titan condemned to bear the heavens on his shoulders, separate the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert.
What are the Atlas Mountains?
100
Considered mountains, they are a highland region in central Sahara, or southern Algeria, along the Tropic of Cancer and are also a rocky section of the Sahara Desert
What are the Ahaggar Mountains? Also acceptable: The Hoggar Mountains.
200
The third-largest African river, it shares its French name, but not its pronunciation, with a country of the same spelling. Clue: It comes from the French word for Black.
What is the Niger River? The river is pronounced [Nigh-jur]. The country is [Knee-zhair].
200
This cold yet "baked" dessert was thusly named in 1876 to honor the recently acquired American territory in Alaska.
What is Baked Alaska? What's this have to do with Africa? Nothing really. It's just a bit of dessert for your mind!
200
The first part of its name refers to Atlas of Greek mythology, making this ocean off of West Africa the "Sea of Atlas".
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
This African Valley is a 6,000-mile crack (fissure) in the earth's crust, stretching from Lebanon to Mozambique. One of its most dramatic sections slices through East Africa, dividing Kenya into two segments.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
200
The fish in this world's longest freshwater lake is vital to the diets estimated 10 million people living in the region around this lake, part of the Congo basin.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
300
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania share the shoreline of the world's largest tropical lake.
What is Lake Victoria?
300
This desert is a large semi-arid sandy savannah in Southern Africa. Some scientists classify it a semi-desert.
What is the Kalahari desert?
300
The world's earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, and the Indian subcontinent (beginning with the Indus Valley civilization), which began along the valleys of the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile and Indus rivers respectively, all developed around this ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
300
In Dutch, it means the Dragon Mountains. In Zulu, this South African mountain chain is called "The Barrier of Spears."
What is Drakensberg?
300
Contrary to popular belief, this river and its basin was not named for the color of its silt-laden water. It was in fact named in 1779 in honor of the Dutch House of Orange.
What is the Orange River or Orange River Basin?
400
Also the deepest in the world, Africa's most powerful river is the world's third largest river by volume. Clue: The word "powerful" is a clue. The sheer volume of water that flows from this river is phenomenal!
What is the Congo River? (From 1971-1997 the government of then Zaire called it the Zaire River).
400
This name of this coastal desert in Southern Africa means "vast place" in the Nama language.
What is the Namib desert? [NOM-meebp]
400
Lying between Africa and Asia, this biblical body of water is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean.
What is the Red Sea?
400
Rising 19,340 feet above sea level, it is the tallest mountain in Africa and the world’s highest free-standing mountain.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
400
This region named after the powerful river in equatorial Middle Africa contains some of the largest tropical rainforests in the world. Clue: It's equatorial. It's powerful!
What is the Congo? Also accepted: The Congo River Basin, The Congo River Watershed.
500
Contrary to what many think, Victoria Falls iz not located on the northern flowing Nile River, but iz situated on this river that flowz south into the Indian Ocean.
What is the Zambezi River?
500
This dessert is an idiom meaning "to get what is coming to you"--good or bad--it's getting what you deserve.
What are your "just desserts"? Funny, the original idiom was, "just deserts".
500
This waterway connects to the Red Sea and is part of the important Suez canal shipping route between the Mediterranean Sea and out to the Arabian Sea in the Indian Ocean. Clue: 21,000 ships crossing the gulf annually.
What is the Gulf of Aden?
500
Once one of Africa's largest freshwater lakes, it has been shrinking over the past 50 years and satellite images show it is now just a twentieth of its former size.
What is Lake Chad?
500
Mount Kenya National Park, established in 1949, protects the region surrounding this second-highest mountain in Africa, after Kilimanjaro. Clue: It's an eponym.
What is Mount Kenya?