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Geography Africa Flashcards

1
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two territories Africa can be divided into

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Sahara and Sahel

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2
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nickname for Africa because little was known about it before the 19th century

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Dark Continent

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3
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eight mile stretch of water that separates Africa from Europe

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Strait of Gibraltar

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4
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how many coutries are in Africa?

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54

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5
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four climates of Africa

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desert, highland, savannah, rain forest

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6
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Africa’s most dramatic geographic feature

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Eastern Rift System

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7
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Africa’s highest peaks

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Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya

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8
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world’s longest river

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Nile

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9
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six water systems in Africa

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Nile, Congo, Niger, Orange, Zambezi, Limpopo

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10
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deepest RIVER in Africa

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Congo

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11
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Africa’s largest lake

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Lake Victoria

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12
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world’s longest freshwater lake

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Lake Tanganyika

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13
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second largest freshwater body in the world

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Lake Victoria

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14
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five nations included in Saharan Africa

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Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco

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15
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vast seas of sand in Africa

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ergs

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16
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“the gift of the Nile”

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Egypt

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17
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the largest city of Africa

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Cairo

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18
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state religion of Egypt

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Islam

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19
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largest religious minority in Egypt

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Coptic Orthodox Church

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20
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farmers in Egypt that live in small, low houses made of brick

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fellahin

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21
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open-air market

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bazaar

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22
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the lands west of Egypt

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Maghreb

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23
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colony that became so wealthy and influential that it rivaled Rome

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Carthage

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24
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Libya’s most productive farmland

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Gefara Plain

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25
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Libya’s capital and largest city

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Tripoli

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26
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most important export product for the Western Isles

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mineral resources (oil, natural gas, phosphates)

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27
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Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco

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Maghreb

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28
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Mauritania, Niger, Chad, Mali, Sudan

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Sahel

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29
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also known as Sudan

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Sahel

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30
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Sudan’s capital

31
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world’s largest swamp; found in Sudan

32
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first recorded African American

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Ethiopian eunuch

33
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newest nation as of July 2011

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South Sudan

34
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ancient Egyptian term for Sudan

35
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of the five countries that make up the Sahel, which is not in the French Sahel

36
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in the French Sahel, what is the difference from the north to the south in each country

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the north is desert in each country and in the south there is a main river system

37
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Africa’s first and greatest Christian kingdom from about AD 300

38
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the tropical climate of Western Africa produces _____

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bananas, coffee, and cacao

39
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four tribes that make up Nigeria

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Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, and Fulani

40
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Nigeria’s modern capital

41
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Nigeria’s original capital

42
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first Black bishop to be ordained by the Church of England

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Samuel Adjai Crowther

43
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Ghana relies on _____ to prosper

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gold and cacao

44
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formerly known as Zaire

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Dem. Rep. of the Congo

45
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what country was originally responsible for exploration of the Congo River

46
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explorer who traced the Congo RIver to its source in 1877

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Henry M. Stanley

47
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what happened in the DRC in 1997

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a civil war that forced Mobutu to step down and flee to the Rep. of the Congo

48
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dictator who took over DRC and removed all cultural influence, including Christian names

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Joseph Mobutu

49
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in which portion of Africa is the Horn of Africa

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Eastern Africa

50
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world’s second largest freshwater lake

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Lake Victoria

51
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lake named by David Livingstone for his queen

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Lake Victoria

52
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the longest and second-deepest freshwater lake in the world

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Lake Tanganyika

53
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dominant feature on the Horn of Africa

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Ethiopian Highlands

54
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Ethiopia’s capital, which is the only city with more than two million inhabitants

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Addis Ababa

55
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tall, thin people that are considered herder-warriors; found in Kenya

56
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tribe that managed to keep their farmland from the Masai

57
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Kenya’s first president

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Jomo Kenyatta

58
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Kenya’s largest export industry

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agriculture

59
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first bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

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Frumentius (Father of Peace)

60
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one of Africa’s most spectacular natural wonders that is formed by the Zambezi River

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Victoria Falls

61
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Southern Africa’s largest desert region

62
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wealthiest and most highly developed nation in Africa

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(Republic of) South Africa

63
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who founded Cape Town

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Dutch colonists

64
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a program of racial segregation

65
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Communist revolutionary that took over Zimbabwe

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Robert Mugabe

66
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Communist leader of the African National Congress

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Nelson Mandela

67
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only significant mountain range in South Africa that forms the Great Escarpment

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Drakensberg Range

68
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began a program of modernization in Ethiopia to increase the prosperity and security of his people

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Haile Selassie I

69
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nomadic tribes which roam in the desert; on the steppe and savanna herdsmen tend animals and farmers grow crops

70
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deposed Libya’s pro-Western king and established a military dictatorship, banned all traces of Western culture, established Islamic law, and seized control of the oil industry

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Muammar Qaddafi

71
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sometimes called the “Gold Coast”

72
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the Aswan High Dam in the Nile Valley reaches a huger reservoir named after ______

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

73
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Ghana’s first president who originally was an example, but eventually turned to Communism

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Kwame Nkrumah

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