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Worksheets10/05/23 - Great Rift Valley Review
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
What is the most significant physical detail on the planet that is visible from space?
The Great Rift Valley
The Great Lakes
The Dead Sea
The Red Sea
What is the Great Rift Valley?
A mountain range in East Africa
A river in Syria
A geological feature running from Syria to Mozambique
A lake in Central Africa
Which of the following lakes is the second deepest lake in the world?
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Victoria
Lake Naivasha
Lake Magadi
What is the width range of the Great Rift Valley?
10 to 30 miles
20 to 60 miles
30 to 100 miles
60 to 120 miles
Which valley separates the Galilee mountains and the Golan Heights in Israel?
Beqaa Valley
Hula Valley
Jordan Valley
Wadi Arabah
What is the probable location of a triple junction in the Great Rift Valley?
Afar Triangle
Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
Indian Ocean
Which part of the Great Rift Valley is known as the Albertine Rift?
Eastern Rift
Western Rift
Jordan Valley
Wadi Arabah
Which lake in the Rift Valley is almost solid sodium carbonate?
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Victoria
Lake Magadi
Lake Naivasha
What is the main reason for the abundance of algae and fish in the soda lakes of the Rift Valley?
High mineral content
Freshwater springs
Geothermal activity
Seasonal flooding
What has the Rift Valley been a rich source of?
Fossils
Minerals
Oil reserves
Freshwater
Which lake is the largest of the Kenyan lakes?
Lake Turkana
Lake Nakuru
Lake Baringo
Lake Naivasha
Which lake is a seasonal, shallow hot-spring fed soda lake?
Lake Turkana
Lake Baringo
Lake Logipi
Lake Bogoria
Which lake is the second largest of the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes?
Lake Turkana
Lake Nakuru
Lake Baringo
Lake Naivasha
Which lake is a national preserve and a shallow soda lake?
Lake Turkana
Lake Baringo
Lake Logipi
Lake Bogoria
Which lake has been a national park since 1968 and is a shallow soda lake?
Lake Turkana
Lake Baringo
Lake Logipi
Lake Nakuru
Which lake is the highest in the group of Kenyan lakes?
Lake Turkana
Lake Naivasha
Lake Logipi
Lake Magadi
Which lake is the largest and deepest of the Rift Valley lakes and the second-oldest lake on the planet?
Lake Albert
Lake Kivu
Lake Edward
Lake Tanganyika
Which lake is the alkaline exception in the Southern Rift Valley lakes?
Lake Rukwa
Lake Malombe
Lake Malawi
Lake Chilwa
Which lake is drained by the Shire River, a tributary of the Zambezi River?
Lake Rukwa
Lake Malombe
Lake Malawi
Lake Chilwa
What is the East African Rift System?
A place where the earth's tectonic forces are trying to create new plates
A series of distinct rift basins in East Africa
A fracture in the earth's surface that widens over time
A region in Ethiopia where the Ethiopian Rift is located
What are the two plates involved in the rifting process in East Africa?
Nubian Plate and Arabian Plate
Nubian Plate and Somalian Plate
Somalian Plate and Arabian Plate
African Plate and Arabian Plate
What is the term used to describe the point where three plates meet in the Afar region of Ethiopia?
Triple-junction
Horst and graben
Fracture zone
Thermal bulge
What is the process that is believed to cause the formation of rift valleys?
answer choices
Elevated heat flow from the mantle
Fracturing of the outer brittle crust
Volcanic eruptions
Stretching and thinning of the crust
