African Physical Geography Introduction - Part 2

Due to its shape, the region of East Africa is known as the “______________________________”. 

• Nose of North America

• Horn of Africa

• Ear of Europe

Part of a chain of valleys that stretch from southwest Asia to southern Africa, which of the following is the most important physical feature of East Africa? 

• The Congo rainforest

• Mediterranean Sea

• Great Rift Valley

• Alps

Which physical feature does most of East Africa sit on, with the higher elevations of these areas meaning the temperatures are cooler? 

• plateaus

• plains

• rifts

• volcanoes

Located in Tanzania, which physical feature of East Africa is also a dormant (inactive) volcano?

• Mount McKinley

• Great Rift Valley

• Carpathian Mountains

• Mount Kilimanjaro

One major physical feature of is the world's largest desert, the ______.

The ECUMENE of the Sahara is LOW because:

• it's an easy place to live, so there are many megacities there

• it has plentiful, amazing farmland, and a growing population

• it is one of the HARSHEST environments to survive

• None of the above

Some of the last remaining rainforests of the world are in Africa. A rainforest is:

• A vast, dry area of sand

• A vast, humid area of trees, plants, animals, & insects

• A vast, temperate area of mostly flat, grassy plains with some trees

• A vast area of dry grasslands with some sand

A strong BELIEF that is NOT open to being changed is a...

• citation

• fact

• bias

• summary

When we SHOW in our writing WHERE we got our information from, we are: 

• plagiarizing and bragging

• annotating text

• paraphrasing and summarizing

• citing evidence

Africa is also home to Earth’s LONGEST RIVER, named the ____.