East Africa Geography

Where do most of Egypt's people live?

• along the coast
• the Sahara Desert
  the Sahara Desert
• the Nile River Valley
• the city of Alexandria

What area is shaded in red?

• Kalahari Desert
• the Nile River Valley
• the Sahara Desert
• South Africa

This area is a strip of dry grassland that is slowly turning into desert.

• the Sahel
• the Nile River
• the Congo River
• the Kalahari Desert

Which physical feature is located in East Africa? 

• Great Rift Valley 
• Congo Basin
• Cape of Good Hope 
• Sahara 

The Great Rift Valley was formed mainly by 

• Shifting tectonic plates 
• Seawater erosion
• Nile River flooding
• Large meteor 

The principal export in many Atlantic coastal countries is 

• Cacao
• Bananas
• Oil
• Chromium

Which country is not part of East Africa?

• Somalia

• Kenya

• Tunisia

• Rwanda

A famine is more likely to occur in places that

• depend on manufacturing

• depend on farming

• depend on peasants

• depend on government assistance

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Famine

• a shortage of food that may cause people to starve

• to make something new from something old

• a large area of the world

• the ability to get or have something

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Drought is...

• When there is abnormally low rainfall for an extended period of time

• When there is abnormally low rainfall for a day

• When there is adequate rainfall for an extended period of time

• When there is abnormally high amounts of rainfall for a day