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Geography of Africa

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where is the Alien?

a)

The Sahel

b)

The Sahara

c)

Atlanta

d)

Kalahari Desert

2.

What River is the Arrow Pointing at?

a)

Nile River

b)

Willy Wonka's Chocolate River

c)

Congo River

d)

Niger River

3.

Where is the Alien?

a)

Atlas Mountains

b)

Mt. Kilimanjaro

c)

Big Rock Candy Mountain

d)

Great Rift Valley

4.

What Mountain is the Arrow Pointing at?

a)

Mount Kilimanjaro

b)

Atlas Mountains

c)

Mount Rushmore

d)

Mount Everest

5.

Where is the Alien?

a)

Sahara

b)

Sahel

c)

Mt. Kilimanjaro

d)

Florida

6.

Where's the Alien at?

a)

Kalahari Desert

b)

Sahara Desert

c)

Savanna

d)

South Georgia

7.

What is the Arrow Pointing at?

a)

Great Rift Valley

b)

Nile River

c)

Congo River

d)

Atlas Mountains

8.

What landform has rolling grassland and scattered trees?

a)

Savanna

b)

Nile River

c)

Tropical Rain Forest

d)

Niger River

9.

What is the tallest mountain in Africa?

a)

Mt. Fuji

b)

Mt. Everest

c)

Atlas Mountains

d)

Mt. Kilimanjaro

10.

In terms of land area, Africa is the ___ largest continent planet on earth.

a)

2nd

b)

3rd

c)

4th

d)

5th

11.

A semiarid grassland that separates the Sahara from the savannas, or tropical grasslands is called the

a)

Sahel

b)

Great Rift Valley

c)

The Great Escarpment

d)

The Congo Basin

12.

Which of the following bodies of water does *not* border Africa?

a)

Atlantic Ocean

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Red Sea

d)

Mediterranean Sea

13.

Which body of water is indicated by the red star?

a)

Congo River

b)

Niger River

c)

Nile River

d)

Euphrates River

14.

Which body of water is indicated by the red star?

a)

Red Sea

b)

Atlantic Ocean

c)

Mediterranean Sea

d)

Niger River

15.
Which landform is located nearest number 1?
a)
Kalahari Desert
b)
Atlas Mountains
c)
Namib Desert
d)
Sahara Desert
16.

Which African country is this?

a)

Madagascar

b)

Falkland Islands

c)

Canary Islands

d)

Mozambique

17.

The absence of rainfall from an area of land

a)

Drought

b)

Harmattan

c)

Desertification

d)

Arid

18.

A narrow strip of semi-arid land south of the Sahara in Africa

a)

Sahara

b)

Savanna

c)

Sahel

d)

Rain Forest

19.

A change from productive land to desert

a)

Deforestation

b)

Harmattan

c)

Oasis

d)

Desertification

20.

Which of these features is the Atlas Mountains?

a)

A

b)

E

c)

H

d)

G

21.

The Niger River is represented by this letter.

a)

B

b)

E

c)

I

d)

F

22.

Lake Victoria is represented by this letter.

a)

B

b)

E

c)

H

d)

G

23.

Which letter represents the Kalahari Desert?

a)

C

b)

D

c)

J

d)

G

24.

What body of water has a red dot?

a)

Straits of Comoros

b)

Red Sea

c)

Dead Sea

d)

Mediterranean Sea

25.

What is the longest river in Africa and the world?

a)

Congo River

b)

Nile River

c)

Niger River

26.

What large river flows through the Congo Basin into the Atlantic Ocean?

a)

Congo River

b)

Nile River

c)

Niger River

27.

What is the name of this sea?

a)

Mediterranean Sea

b)

Red Sea

28.

What is the name of the huge valley that extends through east Africa?

a)

Great Rift Valley

b)

Yosemite Valley

29.

Which major African river flows through Egypt?

a)

Congo River

b)

Niger River

c)

Egyptian River

d)

Nile River

30.

Which feature is the arrow pointing to?

a)

Kalahari Desert

b)

Tropical Rainforest

c)

Sahara Desert

d)

Gobi Desert

31.

Which river is the arrow identifying?

a)

Niger River

b)

Congo River

c)

Nile River

d)

West African River

32.

Which feature is the arrow pointing to?

a)

Lake Victoria

b)

Congo River

c)

Lake Tanganyika

d)

Lake Nile

33.

"It is very hard for me to farm here due to overgrazing and poor soil. My farm land is slowly becoming a desert." The quote is best describing which region?

a)

Sahel

b)

Tropical Rainforest

c)

Savanna

d)

Sahara

34.

What is the worlds second largest continent?

a)

North America

b)

Asia

c)

Antartica

d)

Africa

35.

Which is a map of Africa

a)
b)
c)
d)

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