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Africa Physical Features

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the Nile River empty into?

a)

Atlantic Ocean

b)

Red Sea

c)

Mediterranean Sea

2.

a fan-shaped area where a river (Nile) meets & empties into an ocean/sea

a)

a cataract

b)

a shadoof

c)

a delta

3.

What Central African river is highlighted?

a)

Congo

b)

Zambezi

c)

Nile

4.

This is where Africa is splitting apart!

a)

Great Rift Valley

b)

Transition Zone

c)

Ring of Fire

5.

What river is highlighted? This is the longest river on earth from North to South.

a)

Congo

b)

Zambezi

c)

Nile

6.

What body of water has a red dot?

a)

Mediterranean Sea

b)

Red Sea

c)

Dead Sea

7.

What ocean does not border Africa?

a)

Indian

b)

Atlantic

c)

Pacific

8.

What is Africa's largest lake?

a)

Lake Huron

b)

Mediterranean Sea

c)

Lake Victoria

9.

What is the highest point in Africa?

a)

Mt Everest

b)

Mt Kilimanjaro

c)

Mt Fuji

10.

This latitude line divides the earth into northern / southern hemispheres

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

Sahara Desert

c)

Equator

11.

What's this bright thing?

a)

Zambezi River

b)

Congo Basin

c)

Sahara Desert

12.

What's the circled thing at the bottom?

a)

Kalahari Desert

b)

Sahara Desert

c)

Niger River

13.

What is the name of the big desert located in Northern Africa?

a)

Kalahari Desert

b)

Gobi Desert

c)

Sahara Desert

14.

Which river is located nearest number 6?

a)

Volta

b)

Niger

c)

Zambezi

15.

What's that red area?

a)

Mediterranean Sea

b)

Atlantic Ocean

c)

Indian Ocean

d)

Red Sea

16.
a)

Zambezi River

b)

Nile River

c)

Congo Basin

d)

Congo River

17.
What landform is shaded red in the image? 
a)
Red Sea
b)
Mediterranean Sea
c)
Atlantic Ocean
d)
Arctic Ocean
18.

What's that red-colored thing>?

a)

Mediterranean Sea

b)

Indian Ocean

c)

Red Sea

d)

African Sea

19.

brown blob?

a)

Western Sahara Desert

b)

Serengeti Desert

c)

Sahara Desert

d)

Kalahari Desert

20.

What's that red triangle?

a)

Rushmore

b)

Everest

c)

Kilimanjaro

d)

Lake Victoria

21.

This blue island is ________

a)

Mozambique

b)

Madagascar

c)

Malawi

d)

Tanzania

22.

In what part of Africa is the SAHARA DESERT?

a)

East

b)

South

c)

North

23.
Located at zero degrees longitude and divides the eastern and western hemispheres on Earth
a)
equator
b)
prime meridian
24.
Which of the following is the line at 0 degrees latitude? 
a)
Equator 
b)
Prime Meridian 
25.

What is the name of Continent #4

a)

Australia

b)

Africa

c)

South America

d)

Asia

26.
Name the ocean labeled letter B
a)
Arctic
b)
Pacific
c)
Southern
d)
Atlantic
27.
Identify continent #6.
a)
North America
b)
Asia
c)
Pacific
d)
Arctic
28.

Name the 0° line of Latitude.

a)

Prime Meridian

b)

Latitude

c)

Equator

29.
Which ocean is labeled D?
a)
Southern
b)
Arctic
c)
Pacific
d)
Indian
30.
Name the continent labeled with the number 5.
a)
Europe
b)
North America
c)
Africa
d)
Asia
31.
a)
Zambezi River
b)
Nile River
c)
Congo River
d)
Niger River
32.
a)

Lake Victoria

b)

Lake Malawi

c)

Lake Tanganyika

d)

Lake Turkana

33.
a)

Mount Everest

b)

Mount Kilimanjaro

c)

Mount Kenya

34.
a)

Nile River

b)

Niger River

c)

Congo River

d)

Zambezi River

35.
a)
Nile River
b)
Niger River
c)
Congo River
d)
Orinoco River
36.

What type of map is this?

a)

Physical

b)

Political

37.

in South Africa

a)

Orange River

b)

Zambezi River

c)

Limpopo River

38.

red line

a)

Equator

b)

Prime Meridian

39.

strip of water between Mozambique and Madagascar

a)

Strait of Madagascar

b)

Mozambique Strait

c)

Mozambique Channel

d)

Red Sea

40.

desert centered in Botswana

a)

Kalahari Desert

b)

Namib Desert

c)

Orange Desert

d)

Congo Desert

41.

One of Africa's great lakes

a)

Lake Victoria

b)

Lake Nyasa (Malawi)

c)

Lake Tanganiyka

42.

One of Africa's great lakes

a)

Lake Victoria

b)

Lake Nyasa (Malawi)

c)

Lake Tanganiyka

d)

Lake Chad

43.

Above Africa is...

a)

Asia

b)

Europe

44.

Tiny shrinking lake

a)

Lake Baikal

b)

Lake Chad

c)

Lake Nyasa (Malawi)

d)

Lake Nasser

45.

water between Somalia and Yemen

a)

Gulf of Aden

b)

Red Sea

c)

Mozambique Channel

d)

Strait of Somalia

46.

desert along the ocean coast of Namibia

a)

Kalahari Desert

b)

Namib Desert

c)

Sudan Desert

d)

Angolan Desert

47.

Continent northeast of Africa

a)

Asia

b)

Europe

48.

Separates Africa from Europe by only 7-8 miles

a)

Mediterranean Sea

b)

Strait of Gibraltar

c)

Straight of Gibraltar

d)

Strait of Mozambique

e)

Red Sea

49.

?

a)

Indian Ocean

b)

Atlantic Ocean

c)

Pacific Ocean

d)

Red Sea

50.

manmade "river" connecting Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea

a)

Suez Canal

b)

Nile River

c)

Red Canal

d)

Egyptian Strait