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Question 1

How large is the continent Africa?

Answer 1

the 2nd largest

Question 2

How populated is Africa?

Answer 2

the 2nd most, 1.5 bil

Question 3

What is the largest hot sand desert?

Answer 3

The Sahara

Question 4

What is the 2nd largest freshwater lake?

Answer 4

Lake Victoria

Question 5

What is the longest freshwater lake, and 2nd oldest and deepest?

Answer 5

Lake Tanganyika

Question 6

What is the highest free standing mountain?

Answer 6

Mt. Kilamanjaro

Question 7

Is Africa the richest resource continent?

Answer 7

yes

Question 8

How many countries are in Africa?

Answer 8

54

Question 9

What does sahel mean?

Answer 9

Shore of the Desert - transition zone

Question 10

Africa is one big…

Answer 10

plateau

Question 11

What height is most of Africa?

Answer 11

over 1000 ft in elevation

Question 12

What is Kilamamjaro?

Answer 12

a dormant volcano - a tropical mountain that gets cold enough to support glaciers

Question 13

How many countries does Lake Victoria span?

Answer 13

3 countires

Question 14

What are Africa’s highest mountains?

Answer 14

Atlas Mountains (13,000 ft)

Question 15

Who is Gustave?

Answer 15

a serial killer croc born in 1949 that has killed 300 people

Question 16

How many countries share Lake Tanganyika?

Answer 16

4

Question 17

What oceans border Africa?

Answer 17

Atlantic and Indian, + Mediterranean and Red Seas

Question 18

How many Eqyptians depend on the Nile?

Answer 18

90%

Question 19

What is the largest network of rivers?

Answer 19

The Congo River system

Question 20

Why is it difficult to travel the Congo River System?

Answer 20

There are many cataracts

Question 21

What is Victoria falls?

Answer 21

one of the world’s largest waterfalls

Question 22

Where is Victoria Falls?

Answer 22

the Zambexi River, and spans Zambia and Zimbabwe

Question 23

What do locals call Victoria Falls?

Answer 23

The Smoke that Thunders

Question 24

What is South Africa the largest producer of?

Answer 24

chromium (in stainless steel), platinum, diamonds, and gold

Question 25

What is the Democratic Republid of Congo the largest producers of?

Answer 25

cobalt 9lithium batteries)

Question 26

What is Angola the largest producer of?

Answer 26

diamonds (used to fund wars), petroleum, and arable land

Question 27

What is one the largets growing economies in the world?

Answer 27

Angola

Question 28

What is the #1 export, as well as the others.

Answer 28

1. Crude oil 2. gold +minerals/gems as well as: lumber, sugar, palm oil, coffee, and cocoa

Question 29

What are the three main deserts?

Answer 29

Sahara, Kalahari, Namib

Question 30

How big is the Sahara?

Answer 30

3000 miles across, and 1200 miles N to S. Larger than the USA

Question 31

How much of the Sahara is sand?

Answer 31

20% - the rest is gravely plains and high mountains

Question 32

What are underground water storages?

Answer 32

aquifers - they creat oasis

Question 33

How much Africa is tropical?

Answer 33

90% - the most tropical continent

Question 34

What region of Africa gets the most steady rainfall?

Answer 34

Central Africa

Question 35

What region of Africa is most often in a drought situation?

Answer 35

East Africa

Question 36

What region of Africa gets the most extreme rainfall?

Answer 36

West Africa

Question 37

What area is semi-arid?

Answer 37

Sahel

Question 38

What area is meditterranean?

Answer 38

Northenr and Southern Africa

Question 39

What are grasslands called?

Answer 39

Savannas

Question 40

What are the Serengeti Plains?

Answer 40

home to an array of wildlife, and the Great Wildebeast Migration

Question 41

Where are grasslands most located?

Answer 41

the equator

Question 42

What is the largest rainforest and what animals live there?

Answer 42

the Congo Rainforest - gorillas, elephants, and pygmy hippos

Question 43

What the fuck is an Okapi???

Answer 43

'forest giraffe' - endangered

Question 44

What is Africa's longest venomous snake?

Answer 44

the Black Mamba - 14' and speeds of 12.5 mph

Question 45

Fruit bat/ flying fox facts

Answer 45

good eyes, not so good sonar - source of disease and food

Question 46

What is the most trafficked animal?

Answer 46

Pangolin

Question 47

What animal is linked to coronavirus?

Answer 47

Pangolin

Question 48

What is the most dangerous animal in Africa?

Answer 48

Hippos - kill up to 500 people yearly