Africa's Physical Geography

1

• Great Rift Valley
• Nile River
• Namib Desert
• Congo Rainforest

2

• intense heat.
• escarpments & orographic precipitation.
• ocean currents.
• low elevation & the Congo Basin.

3

• semiarid, desert scrub.
• tropical wet, broadleaf evergreen forest.
• mediterranean, chaparral.
• tropical wet & dry, tropical savanna.

4

• climate change.
• water erosion.
• divergent boundaries.
• solar winds.

5

• escarpments/plateaus
• rivers
• basins
• mountains

6

• Coastal plains, Escarpment, Plateau
• Mountain Range, Escarpment, Rivers
• Rivers, Plateaus, Escarpments
• Plateaus, Escarpment, Coastal Plains

7

• Central latitude
• Abundance of rain
• Equator and Tropics positioning
• Abundance of escarpments in the area

8

• Atlantic Ocean
• Arctic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean

9

• North Africa
• West Africa
• South Africa
• Central Africa

10

• rocky mountain with cliffs. 
• tropical grassland with scattered trees.
• Mediterranean temperature with many shrubs.
• desert with sand dunes.