GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA

AFRICA (SATELLITE VIEW)

AFRICAN FACTS
It is the second largest continent. Africa has 10% of the worlds population. Africa has the longest river in the world, the Nile River .

AFRICAN FACTS

Mediterranean Sea

Libyan Desert

The

Tropic of Cancer 20 N Sahara Desert Sahel L. Chad--> Nile River

Complete
Geography Of
Equator 0

L. Albert--> Mt. Kenya L. Victoria L. Tanganyika-> Mt. Kilimanjaro Indian Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

AFRICA
Tropic of Capricorn 20 S

Zambezi River

Limpopo River Orange River

Pacific Ocean

GEOGRAPHY

African geography is like a soup bowl.

In

the north are the Atlas Mountains. In the south are the Drakensberg Mountains. In the west are the Adamawa Mountains. In the east are the Ruwenzori Mountains.

In the middle are rifts: long, deep valleys formed by movement of the earths crust. They connect to the mountains through plateaus and plains.

GEOGRAPHY

Plateau: a flat high risen area of land connecting to a mountain. Plain: an area of flat land.

GEOGRAPHY
The northern has mountains and a large desert, the Sahara Desert. Anything below the Sahara Desert is known as sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa has many rivers and civilization arose there

Congo

River Zambezi River Niger River

Vegetation Zones

AFRICAS FOUR MAIN REGIONS

Desert Worlds largest desert Temperatures can go up to 120 degrees

AFRICAS FOUR MAIN REGIONS

Sahel It is a strip of land that divides deserts from wetter areas

AFRICAS FOUR MAIN REGIONS

Savannah Open grasslands with scattered trees.

AFRICAS FOUR MAIN REGIONS

Rain forest Area near the equator that gets heavy rain and densely wooded area.

African Rain Forest

Annual rainfall of up to 17 ft.

Rapid decomposition (very humid).

Covers 37 countries. 15% of the land surface of Africa.

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