East Africa Review

the largest lake in Africa

• Darfur Lake

• Nubia Lake

• Lake Mogadishu

• Lake Zanzibar

• Lake Victoria

a series of valleys in East Africa caused by the stretching of Earth's crust

• Great Rift Valley

• Lake Victoria

• Serengeti Plain

• Mount Kilimanjaro

• rift valleys

places on Earth's surface where the crust stretches until it breaks

• rift valleys

• imperialism

• geothermal energy

• genocide

• droughts

an attempt to dominate a country's government, trade, and culture

• imperialism

• safari

• geothermal energy

• genocide

• droughts

the intentional destruction of a people

• imperialism

• safari

• geothermal energy

• genocide

• droughts

Africa's rift valley runs ______ to ______.

• east to west

• north to south

• neither

Who were the Hutus and the Tutsis?

• Two Ethnic Groups in Rwanda

• Two Musical Groups from Ethiopia

• Two Political Factions in Uganda

• To Rebel Groups is Somalia

What is Genocide?

• Purposely killing a specific ethnic, religious or racial group

• Purposely killing a specific generation of people

• Accidentally killing a specific group of people

• Accidental death that happens during a war

What is the Great Rift Valley?

• a huge crack in the earth’s surface with fertile farmland
• a huge crack in the earth’s surface with a desert in the middle
• a huge crack in the earth’s surface with  the Nile river in the middle
• a huge crack in the earth’s surface where nobody has ever visited

These two countries have a large Hutu and Tutsi population and went through a violent civil war in the 1990s. 

• Kenya and Tanzania 
• Tanganyika and Zanzibar
• Ethiopia and Eritrea 
• Rwanda and Burundi