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WorksheetsAfrican Physical Geography Introduction - Part 2
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
Due to its shape, the region of East Africa is known as the “______________________________”.
Nose of North America
Horn of Africa
Ear of Europe
Part of a chain of valleys that stretch from southwest Asia to southern Africa, which of the following is the most important physical feature of East Africa?
The Congo rainforest
Mediterranean Sea
Great Rift Valley
Alps
Which physical feature does most of East Africa sit on, with the higher elevations of these areas meaning the temperatures are cooler?
plateaus
plains
rifts
volcanoes
Located in Tanzania, which physical feature of East Africa is also a dormant (inactive) volcano?
Mount McKinley
Great Rift Valley
Carpathian Mountains
Mount Kilimanjaro
One major physical feature of is the world's largest desert, the (a) .
The ECUMENE of the Sahara is LOW because:
it's an easy place to live, so there are many megacities there
it has plentiful, amazing farmland, and a growing population
it is one of the HARSHEST environments to survive
None of the above
Some of the last remaining rainforests of the world are in Africa. A rainforest is:
A vast, dry area of sand
A vast, humid area of trees, plants, animals, & insects
A vast, temperate area of mostly flat, grassy plains with some trees
A vast area of dry grasslands with some sand
A strong BELIEF that is NOT open to being changed is a...
citation
fact
bias
summary
When we SHOW in our writing WHERE we got our information from, we are:
plagiarizing and bragging
annotating text
paraphrasing and summarizing
citing evidence
Africa is also home to Earth’s LONGEST RIVER, named the (a) .
The second largest CONTINENT on Earth is:
Asia
Europe
United States of America
Africa
Dry grasslands to the south of the Sahara desert are called the ________________.
Nile River
African rainforests
Great Escarpment
Sahel (Sah-hail)
