Lecture 1

Question 1

Africa is the … largest continent.

Answer 1

second

Question 2

Africa has a land area of about …

Answer 2

30.5 million square km

Question 3

Which country has the largest area?

Answer 3

Algeria

Question 4

What is Africa’s most prominent feature?

Answer 4

the plateau

Question 5

Except for the coast of …. and …. much of the continent lies at least 1000 feet above sea level.

Answer 5

Somalia, Mozambique

Question 6

Which continent do geographers refer to as “world’s plateau continent?”

Answer 6

Africa

Question 7

Africa has the largest tropical area of any continent, true or false?

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Africa lies almost entirely between the …..which gives it warm tropical temperatures.

Answer 8

Tropic of cancer and tropic of capricorn

Question 9

What percentage of Africa’s rainforest are located within Central and West Africa?

Answer 9

80%

Question 10

What vegetation type is the largest?

Answer 10

Tropical Savannah Vegetation

Question 11

What type of vegetation makes up 65% of Africa’s vegetation?

Answer 11

tropical savannah

Question 12

Type of rainfall maxima in the tropical savannah vegetation?

Answer 12

single rainfall maxima

Question 13

Mediterranean shrub lands are located at the…

Answer 13

Northwestern and Southern tips of Africa

Question 14

Africa’s population makes up what percentage of the world’s population?

Answer 14

16.72%

Question 15

Africa has a population of about …..

Answer 15

1.4 billion

Question 16

What is the estimated number range of African languages?

Answer 16

1500 - 2000

Question 17

A diverse array of political, economic and social ideas from the West, communist block and the muslim world is ….

Answer 17

Triple heritage.

Question 18

East African Community comprises of?

Answer 18

Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

Question 19

Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda have a shared …?

Answer 19

colonial history and common services

Question 20

Why was the East African Community formed?

Answer 20

as a trading bloc to support mutual development and economic partnerships.

Question 21

In what year did Germany gain control of Tanzania?

Answer 21

1800’s

Question 22

Germany relinquished the colony of Tanzania to ….. after WW1

Answer 22

Britain

Question 23

Off the coast of East Africa is the Island ?

Answer 23

Zanzibar

Question 24

The main region of Tanzania was called…?

Answer 24

Tanganyika

Question 25

What year did Tanzania gain independence?

Answer 25

1960

Question 26

How many years later after independence did Zanzibar and Tanganyika come together to form Tanzania?

Answer 26

4

Question 27

During colonial times, which country was the crown protectorate area?

Answer 27

Kenya

Question 28

What is Kenya’s independence year?

Answer 28

1963

Question 29

What’s the purpose of the coastal city of Mombassa in Kenya?

Answer 29

has been an international shipping port for centuries and now the busiest port in the region.

Question 30

I’m a small landlocked country on the coast of Lake Victoria, who am I?

Answer 30

Uganda

Question 31

What are the three large water bodies in Uganda?

Answer 31

Lakes Albert, Edward and George

Question 32

Uganda’s brutal dictator name?

Answer 32

Idi Amin

Question 33

Land in Uganda belongs to the ?

Answer 33

people not the government