Africa environments vocabulary

Match the following

• One of the deepest and longest freshwater lakes in the world; located in East Africa

• Lake Tanganyika

• The major river of West Africa

• Congo River

• central Africa

• Niger River

• longest river in the world

• Zambezi River

• A river in Central and Southern Africa that flows into the Indian Ocean.

• Nile River

Match the following

• the largest desert in the world, covering most of northern Africa

• Atlas Mountains

• the highest peak in Africa

• Mt. Kilimanjaro

• Large desert in SOUTHERN Africa

• Sahara Desert

• largest lake in Africa

• Lake Victoria

• Africa's longest mountain range

• Kalahari Desert

Match the following

• An area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes

• Desertification

• a strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas

• tropical rainforest

• the largest rift in the earth's surface

• Great Rift Valley

• the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert

• Savanna

• a broadleaf evergreen forest found in wet and hot regions near the equator.

• Sahel

Match the following

• Water that contains dirt and impurities.

• deforestation

• the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert

• Desertification

• The contamination of streams, rivers, lakes, oceans, or groundwater with substances produced through

• water pollution

• the destruction of forest land

• dirty water

Match the following

• The major river of West Africa

• Nile River

• the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert

• Desertification

• the destruction of forest land

• Congo River

• central Africa

• deforestation

• longest river in the world

• Niger River