Regions and countries Flashcards
Northwestern Africa
Seperates Meditteranean Coastal Range from the Sahara
Atlas Mountain Range
Entire width of North Africa
Largest desert in the world
Few people live here
Exception of traders and nomads
Sand dunes and rolling rocky hills
(may find camels)
Sahara Desert
South of Sahara
Semi-arid, dry
Very little rain
Cut down trees, overgraze
Turning into desert byu desertification
Soil blows away, turining it into desert
Sehel
Close to equator, middle of continent
Vast grassland and more tropical
Farming is good with rain (not good in dry season)
You may find Lions and Elephants here
Desertification
Savanna
Central Coast
Has a hot humid climate
Dense foresr
many different kind of animals
Tropical Rainforest
Southern part of Africa
Surrounded by Semi-arid region
Desert is growing
Kalahari Desert
Longest river in the world
Flows south to north, empties in Meditteranean
Nile River
West central
Goes through the Rainforest
Starts at lake Tanganyika and ends in Atlantic
Congo River
Third largest river in africa
The mouth of the River is the delta (huge for oil)
Niger River
On of the largest lakes and deepest
Congo river falls
Lake Tanganyika
Victoria Falls
Nile river starts here
Lake Victoria
- Large country in central Africa
- coastline on the Atlantic
- Rich in natural resources
- Added the Congo River as a transportation method
- Rich in mineral resources(copper,cobalt, and diamonds)
- Has had a troubled history with European colonialism and later civil war.
- The political situation remains unstable, which affects the country’s economic develpoment
Democratic Republic of The Congo (Zaire)
- is a large North African country located slong the banks of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean coast.
- The Nile River runs the length of Egypt and empties in Mediterranean Sea near the Egyptian city of Alexandria.
- Cairo, Egypt’s capitol, is alarger city located on the Nile River.
- Most of Egypt is desert.
- Almost all people live along the length of the narrow Nile River Valley.
Egypt
- Located along the Eastern coast of Africa boredering the Indian Ocean.
- is a beautiful country known the world over its magnificent animsl parks and rich Savanna grasslands
- Was colonized by the british
- Has a stable government
Kenya
- large nation of the coast of west Africa
- Northern part of the country is close to sahara
Nigeria
