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The least of the least (Africa) Flashcards

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Caracteristic of BIG

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Tunis = 8000 km

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Carasteristic of ISOLATED

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By the Oceans and the Sahara Desert

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Carastericic MASSIVE

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africa = 845 km2

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Caracteristic TROPICAL

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80% of its land is located between the tropics

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Caracteristic UNDERDEVLOPED

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people living with less than 1.9 US$ a day

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Caracteristic DEVELOPING

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Over 2000 ethnic groups

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Africa is vast … with a land area of … km2, … times the size of Canada

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continent
30 km2
3

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The … as large as … isolated … or … from the rest of the world for centuries

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Sahara Desert
continental USA
Black
Sub-Saharan Africa

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The … and … the … difficult to navigate and … also played an important role in … Africa from the rest of the world for a long time

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Oceans
Seas
Rivers
Africa’s massiveness
isolating

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…% of Africa stands between the …

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80%
Tropics

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The … religion prevails throughout … and the … countries of the Mediterranean Sea

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Islam
Saharan Africa
Maghreb

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… has a … population, extremely diversified … and the … religion growing in importance as you travel south

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Sub-Saharan Africa
black
languages
Christian

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The … is the … river on earth (… km)

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Nile River
longest
6650 km

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In 2019, …% of the people infected with … worldwide were living in …

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70%
HIV/AIDS
Sub-Saharan Africa

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One of the most affected country is … where …% of its population has contracted the virus

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South Africa
19%

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The … located mostly in the … and … regions, is an area where … are moving apart from each other

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Great Riff Valley
Horn of Africa
East Africa
two main tectonic plates

17
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The divergent plates create an important depression with a lot of … and where many … are found

A

geotermal activity
volcanoes

18
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In the … layer of the atmosphere, the … drops by … for every … meters as you go up

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lower
temperature
6.5 degree celcius
1000 m

19
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This is why there are glaciers on top of mountains at the Equator, such as …

A

Mount Kilimanjaro

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