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29 Cards in this Set
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Describe the landscape of Africa
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Plateau
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What are the highest plateaus in Africa called?
Second highest? |
1. Ethiopian Highlands (Ethiopia)
2. Drakensberg Mountains in Lesotho and South Africa |
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What has been carved into the Ethiopian Highlands?
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Canyons have been carved by rivers
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Where are the Drakensberg mountains?
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Lesotho and South Africa
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Where are the Victoria Falls?
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On the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia
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How are rift valleys formed?
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Crust pulls apart and a block of crust sinks down
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What are the rift valley lakes of Africa called?
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1. Lake Tanganyika (2nd largest lake in the world, on the western edge of Tanzania)
2. Lake Malawi |
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Where are there volcanoes in Africa?
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near rift valleys
Eastern Congo Mt. Kenya Mt. Kilimanjaro (highest elevation in Africa) |
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Where is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
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Tanzania
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Where are there Tropical Rainforest in Africa?
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around Congo River Basin
along east coast of west Africa (about up to the niger river) |
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Describe the Tropical Savanna
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grasses and scattered trees
dry winter, rainy summer has most wildlife |
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Best wildlife countries in Africa are...
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BEST
Kenya and tanzania GOOD Simbabwe, Botswana and South Africa |
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Where are the Masai Tribe located?
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In Kenya and Tanzania Savanna
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Describe the Masai Tribe
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Nomadic herding of cattle
drink cow blood without killing the cow |
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Describe the Kalahari
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Desert of Botswana
Mostly semi-desert Bushmen are some of the last hunter gatherers |
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What are the Bushmen languages?
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Clicking languages
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Describe the Namib Desert
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desert of Namibia
Cool and foggy on the coast Sand dunes |
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What is Ethiopia's holiest city?
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Lalibela
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What was West Africa's ancient empire?
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Mali Kingdom
capital timbuktu, on southern edge of the sahara and niger river ancient trade center population 100,000 in 1500 AD now about 15,000 because the british set up seaports that made trade easier |
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Slavery impacted which part of Africa?
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West Africa
The western most country in Africa (senegal) was a big slave trading center. Also ghana |
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Which European country colonized which part of Africa?
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Britain - east
france - northwest belgium - congo portugal - angola and mozambique spain - equatorial guinea |
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What does Sahel mean
What is the climate What is the landscape Where can it be found |
It means shore
semi desert grass and small trees on the southern edge of the sahara |
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Describe the culture of the sahel
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north of the Sahel = light skinned muslims
south of the Sahel = black skinned christians or animists |
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People in the Sahel are mostly….
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mostly muslim, black africans
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Describe Sudan's ethnicity and ethnic problems
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Civil War 1980s, 1990s
*Lighter skin Northern Arabs -Muslim -Dominate the government -Slavery of southerners *Southern blacks -Christian or Animists |
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South Sudan
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July 2011 South Sudan gained independence (youngest country in the world)
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What is the environment of West Africa?
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Savanna Tropical rainforest on the coast |
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Religions of West Africa
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Muslim in the North
Christians and Animists in the South |
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West African Agricultural Exports
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Cocoa and Palm Oil along coast
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