Africa
Physical Geography
Physical Geography
This is Africa's largest lake.
What is Lake Victoria?
Southwest Asia meets at the crossroads of these three continents.
What are Europe, Asia, and Africa?
Incorrectly representing Ghana, Delta Airlines posted a picture of this online.
What is a giraffe (in the wild)?
They are the two main branches of Islam, practiced by the two largest Middle Eastern countries. (Name 'em!)
What are Shia (Iran) and Sunni (Saudi Arabia)?
It's the term for oil that has been discovered but remains kept in the ground.
What is "oil reserves"?
This type of grassland receives a fair amount of rainfall; you'll find plenty of animals here.
What is a savanna?
These are the THREE reasons why Southwest Asia is known as the “cradle of civilization."
What are the birthplace of: farming, the first cities, and the three Abrahamic religions?
Nollywood is the film industry in this African country of 236.7 million people.
What is Nigeria?
Being part of M.E.N.A., this country is sometimes studied with other countries in Southwest Asia. (Name the country and explain M.E.N.A.)
What is Egypt and "Middle East/North Africa"?
Crude oil.
What is the term for petroleum as it comes out of the ground before it is processed and refined for use?
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
This tiny strip of contested land is the site of the current war between the Israeli government and the terrorist group Hamas.
What is Gaza?
It's the African country where one of the oldest Christian organizations began in 328 CE.
What is Ethiopia?
They are the three Abrahamic religions, and their respective founders and holy books.
What are: Judaism/Abraham/Torah, Christianity/Jesus Christ/Bible, and Islam/Muhammad/Qu'ran?
Under a dictator, this country used its oil wealth to build weapons and fight wars. (Name the dictator and the country.)
Who is Saddam Hussein and Iraq?
The world's longest river, it runs for this many miles.
What is the Nile River, at a little over 4000 miles?
Climates: the subtle difference between under 10 inches of rain a year and more than 10 inches of rain a year? (Tell me which is which.)
What is arid (less than 10") and semiarid (more than 10" but still pretty dry)?
As of 2013, 80% of all people across the continent of Africa have access to this.
What is a cell phone?
Those are just three of the ethnic groups found in the Middle East; Arabs and Jews are the two others.
What are Persians, Kurds, and Turks?
They are the FOUR physical steps the earth takes in making oil. (Be sure to include where and how long this happens.)
What are a million+ years ago, 1) sea creatures die and fall to the ocean floor, 2) heat from the core, 3) pressure from the ocean, and 4) tectonic plate movement?
Caused by ancient volcanic activity, this may be the future site of Africa splitting into two landmasses.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
At 1349 feet below sea level, this is the lowest place on the surface of the earth.
What is the Dead Sea?
Kenya surpasses both the U.S. and the U.K. in the development and use of this.
What are renewable/sustainable sources of energy like hydroelectric power?
They are three reasons for conflicts in the Middle East; the spread of Wahabbism and American foreign policy are the other two.
What are: the ways foreign powers divided the Middle East after the world wars, the Saudi Arabia-Iran rivalry, and the Israeli-Palestine conflict?
It's what O.P.E.C. stands for; these two large countries are NOT members.
What are the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Mexico and Russia?