Test 4 Study Guide - Africa

Question 1

At what point are the continents of Africa and Europe only about 8 miles apart?

Answer 1

Strait of Gibraltar

Question 2

What is the major religion of Egypt?

Answer 2

Islam

Question 3

What Egyptian dam allows year-round irrigation of farmland in the Nile Valley?

Answer 3

Aswan High Dam

Question 4

What is Africa’s largest desert?

Answer 4

Sahara

Question 5

What is Africa’s highest peak?

Answer 5

Mt. Kilimanjaro

Question 6

Why is Africa known as the “Dark Continent”?

Answer 6

Little was known about it.

Question 7

What is the longest river in the world?

Answer 7

Nile River

Question 8

What is Africa’s largest lake and the world’s second largest body of fresh water?

Answer 8

Lake Victoria

Question 9

What is Africa’s most dramatic geographic feature?

Answer 9

Eastern Rift System

Question 10

What are characteristics of the Suez Canal?

Answer 10

1. Egypt depends upon it for much of its income.
2. It has been closed only twice since its completion in 1869.
3. It separates Asia from Africa.

Question 11

Into what body of water does the Nile River empty?

Answer 11

Mediterranean Sea

Question 12

Who named Lake Victoria?

Answer 12

David Livingstone

Question 13

What famous African Christian was the first black bishop to be ordained by the Church of England?

Answer 13

Samuel Adjai Crowther

Question 14

What is the largest city in Africa?

Answer 14

Cairo, Egypt, Africa

Question 15

What country possesses the Sinai Peninsula?

Answer 15

Egypt

Question 16

Where did the Afrikaners (descendants of the Dutch) settle?

Answer 16

South Africa

Question 17

What was the first independent black republic in Africa?

Answer 17

Liberia