East Africa Flashcards

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What is the Red Sea?

A

A huge flooded valley.

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What things are caused by the African Divergent Boundary?

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Things like rifts, water sources, and mountains are formed. The boundary can also cause earthquakes.

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What is the Serengeti Plain?

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A huge plain with several animals such as Wildebeests.

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The climate of East Africa is mainly tropical savanna, which can be described as mixed grass, trees and ___,

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Heavy seasonal rain.

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One of the newest countries in the UN was formed by dividing the country of ___.

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Sudan.

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A language spoken in East Africa which combines elements of Arabic and Bantu is ___.

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Swahili.

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The native people of the Serengeti, the Maasai, practice ___.

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Subsistence herding.

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Near the Horn of Africa, a country with a very old Christian culture is _____.

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Ethiopia.

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