Lecture 2 Flashcards
One of the geologic wonders of the world in East Africa is?
East African Rift System
Mount Elgon is part of the Eastern Volcanics in ….
Uganda
East Africa is mainly a …
plateau region
Great depressions formed by faulting is called?
Rift Valley System
East African Rift system is part of the ….rift system.
Afro Arabian
Total length of the East African Rift System is….
6000 miles (9,600m)
EARS marks a place where the earth’s …..are presently trying to create new plates b splitting apart old ones.
Tectonic forces
Volcanic and tectonic activity in the rift started about
30 million years ago
Nubian plate makes up most of ….
Africa
Nubian plates is a new plate. True or false?
true
Smaller plate pulling away is named ….
Somalian plate
The nubian and somalian plate move away from each other and also from the …
Arabian plate to the north
Where the three plates are pulling away from one another is
Triple junction
East Africa borders the Indian Ocean for about …
800 miles
The coastal belt includes Islands of ….
Zanzibar and Pemba
mention two artificial harbors and railway terminals along the coast of east A
Mombassa in Kenya
Dar es Salaam in Tanzania
Nile is known as the ….
River of life
Nile is the world’s longest river at ….
4,100 miles
What are the largest extant vertebrate radiation identified in the East African Great Lakes?
Cichlid Fishes
The lakes supports how many species of Cichlid fish?
2000
Cichlid fishes are mostly found in ….
aquariums
all parts of East Africa are within …. from the equator.
12 degree celsius
Places at sea level have ….. temperatures throughout the year.
high
Mombassa and Dar es Salaam have mean annual temperatures of about ….
27 degree celsius
