African Physical Features Quiz

What is the name of the tallest mountain in Africa?

• Mt. Vesuvius

• Mt. Kilimanjaro

• Mt. McKinley

• Mt. Fiji

What is the longest river in the world?

• Nile river

• Amazon River

• Yangtze River

• The Rhine

Located in western Africa, this river begins in Guinea and flows through Nigeria to the Atlantic Ocean

• Nile river

• Congo River

• Mississippi River

• Niger River

This climate is located across northern Africa, is extremely dry, and contains the world's largest hot desert

• Gobi Desert

• Kalahari Desert

• Sahara Desert

• Tropical Rainforest

This physical feature is located in eastern Africa and was created by the movement of tectonic plates.

• Atlas Mountains

• Great Rift Valley

• Lake Victoria

• Sahel

This river is located in central Africa and crosses the equator twice.

• Congo River

• Nile river

• River Thames

• Amazon River

This desert in located in Southern Africa and is the continent's 2nd largest desert

• Sahara Desert

• Taklamakan Desert

• Gobi Desert

• Kalahari Desert

This lake is the LARGEST lake in Africa.

• Lake Victoria

• Lake Superior

• Lake Champlain

• Lake Tanganyika

This climate is a thin strip of land between the Sahara and the Savannas that is disappearing due to desertification.

• Sahara

• Rainforest

• Sahel

• Savannas

This climate is located along the equator in Central Africa is home to a variety of plants and animals

• The tropical rainforest

• Mt. Kilimanjaro

• Sahel

• Atlas Mountains