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Africa Review

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Africa is the ______ largest continent in terms of land size

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd

d)

4th

2.

Which body of water touches the north side of Africa?

a)

Mediterranean Sea

b)

Indian Ocean

c)

Atlantic Ocean

d)

Pacific Ocean

3.

Which body of water touches the northeast side of Africa?

a)

Arctic Ocean

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Red Sea

d)

Atlantic Ocean

4.

What body of water touches the east side of Africa?

a)

Arctic Ocean

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Red Sea

d)

Indian Ocean

5.

What body of water touches the west side of Africa?

a)

Atlantic Ocean

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Red Sea

d)

Indian Ocean

6.

What physical feature covers most of northern Africa?

a)

Congo Rainforest

b)

Great Rift Valley

c)

Sahara Desert

d)

Mount Kilimanjaro

7.

Why is the Nile River so important to Egypt?

a)

It's the longest river in the world

b)

It drains into the Mediterranean Sea

c)

It flows from south to north

d)

It's a major source of water

8.

What is the Sahel?

a)

A low area were land has sunk between cracks in Earth's crust

b)

A peninsula in eastern Africa

c)

a semi-dry region south of the Sahara

d)

An area with many glaciers and a lot of snow

9.

What kind of physical feature is the Horn of Africa?

a)

A peninsula

b)

A delta

c)

A rainforest

d)

An isthmus

10.

What is the Savanna?

a)

A desert in northern Africa

b)

Tropical grasslands with a lot of wildlife

c)

An area of violence and war

d)

A lush rain forest in central Africa

11.

What is Africa's largest rain forest?

a)

Congo

b)

Bongo

c)

Amazon

d)

Swahili

12.

What is the Great Rift Valley?

a)

An area where land sunk between cracks in earth's crust

b)

A semi-dry area south of the Sahara

c)

A place refugees flee to for safety

d)

A lush rain forest in central Africa

13.

Which of these countries colonized Africa?

a)

Britain

b)

France

c)

Germany

d)

All the above

14.

What happened at the Berlin Conference?

a)

A system of segregation was set up in South Africa

b)

Europeans divided Africa into colonies

c)

Africans were given complete control over their land

d)

Nelson Mandela was chosen as the president of South Africa

15.

What language is spoken in northern Africa, due to the Arabs?

a)

Arabic

b)

Spanish

c)

English

d)

Swahili

16.

What religion is commonly practiced in northern Africa, due to the Arabs?

a)

Christianity

b)

Islam

c)

Judaism

d)

Wizardry

17.

What is a refugee?

a)

Someone who flees a place to find safety

b)

A person who supported Apartheid

c)

A person who leads a poor country

d)

A person who is malnourished

18.

Why are refugees fleeing from countries like Sudan and Somalia?

a)

War and Violence

b)

Few job opportunities

c)

The climate is too cold

d)

Frequent flooding

19.

What is Apartheid?

a)

A system of segregation in South Africa

b)

A new type of farming to help with the food crisis in Africa

c)

A language spoken in eastern Africa

d)

A rock band from Northern Africa

20.

Who was a leader in ending Apartheid?

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Trevor Noah

c)

Mr. Wolff

d)

Oprah

21.

What language is used throughout eastern Africa?

a)

Arabic

b)

Swahili

c)

Bantu

d)

English

22.

What is genocide?

a)

an attempt to destroy a whole group of people

b)

illegal hunting

c)

a cure for malaria

d)

where farmland turns into desert

23.

What is the term for illegal hunting?

a)

Poaching

b)

Desertification

c)

Pooling

d)

Sahel

24.

Why is piracy an issue in Somalia?

a)

They don't want to pay tariffs on imports and exports

b)

They don't have a very stable government

c)

They live on house boats

d)

They watched Pirates of the Caribbean too much

25.

What is desertification?

a)

When farmland turns into desert

b)

When mosquitoes spread deadly diseases

c)

illegal hunting

d)

When severe storms create a large tidal wave in the ocean

26.

What disease is spread by the mosquito?

a)

Malaria

b)

The Flu

c)

Dance Fever

d)

Bronchitis