North Africa

Africa's longest mountain range

• Atlas Mountains

• Ural Mountains

A large, mountainous plateau region in the north central Sahara

• Ahaggar

• Massif

The largest hot desert in the world, stretching across most of North Africa

• Sahara

• Siberia

A gravel-covered desert plain

• Regs

• Ergs

A large area of sand with tall dunes in the Sahara

• Ergs

• Regs

The world's longest river, which flows northward through northeast Africa into the Mediterranean Sea

• Nile River

• Volga River

A structure to control the floodwaters of the Nile River and provide electricity

• Aswan High Dam

• Strait of Gibraltar

A strategic, narrow waterway between two larger bodies of water

• Choke Point

• Wadi

Narrow waterway that separates Europe from Africa by 8 miles

• Strait of Gibraltar

• Bering Strait

A streambed in the desert that is dry except during a heavy rain

• Wadi

• Choke Point