Chapter 23 Lesson 1

what is the Kalahari Desert

• a steep cliff between a higher and a lower surface

• a river system that runs through africa

• a climate zone for southern africa

• a vast, sand-covered plateu

what is an escarpment?

• an artificial lake

• a steep cliff between a higher and lower surface

• an person who illegally kills animals for sport

• ronald mcdonald

True or False?

northern Angola and northern Mozambique have a tropical wet-dry climate

• True

• False

What are the 3 major river systems?

[choose THREE answer choices !!!]

• Orange River

• White Nile River

• Zambezi River

• Limpopo River

• Nile River

what does the word "landlocked" mean?

• allowing only those who live there to enter

• being completely surrounded by water

• located on a plateau

• having no border with an ocean or sea

what are the flat basins in Southern Africa called?

• pans

• reservoirs

• rivers

• ..flat basins...?

True or False?

The largest lake in all of Africa is Lake Malawi (or Lake Nyasa)

• True

• False

What does the word reservoir mean?

• a ban on trade

• a steep cliff between a higher and a lower surface

• an artificial lake created by a dam

• a really tall plateau

True or False?

the Namib gets little to no rain every year

• True

• False

what are "blood diamonds" ?

• mined diamonds that pay for rebellions and other violent conflicts

• diamonds used as weapons that are thrown at people

• a nickname that Africans use to call rubies

• the red diamonds that are found on the coast of Angola