Geography of Africa Quiz 24

The process by which the desert spreads is known as ______ and is caused by factors such as drought, over farming and over ______.

• spreadation, traveling

• desertification, grazing

• recession, grazing

• sanding, traveling

Mount ______, is the highest mountain in Africa.

• Everest

• Fuji

• Kilimanjaro

• Kenya

Most of sub-Sahara Africa’s high and low lands lay on a raised (elevated) area of relatively level land known as a ______.

• mesa

• steppe

• plateau

• savanna

The tectonic plates beneath East Africa are slowly pulling it away from the rest of the continent creating a series of broad, steep-walled valleys called rifts and is known as the ______.

• The Great Rift Valley

• The Great Dividing Valley

• The Grand Canyon

• The Grand Divide

The four climate zones of Africa include Mediterranean, deserts, ______, and ______.

• rainforests and mesas.

• Savannas and buttes.

• Rainforest and savannas.

• Cataracts and rainforests.

The Congo basin is covered with ______ because of its closeness to the equator and wet climate.

• savannas

• plateaus

• steppes

• rainforests

This tall grassland area with few scattered trees and shrubs is known as a ______.

• a savanna.

• a mesa.

• a steppe.

• a desert.

Africa has many ______ resources like peanuts, vanilla beans, coffee, bananas, sugar and trees that can be replaced over a short period of time.

The Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Red Sea and ______ frame the border of Africa?

• Dead Sea

• Pacific Ocean

• Mediterranean Sea

• Caspian Sea

This group lived over 5000 years ago in what is known now as Cameroon and became farmers and are partially responsible for the origin of the Swahili language.

• Zulu

• Tutsi

• HuTu

• Bantu