The least of the least (Africa) Flashcards
Caracteristic of BIG
Tunis = 8000 km
Carasteristic of ISOLATED
By the Oceans and the Sahara Desert
Carastericic MASSIVE
africa = 845 km2
Caracteristic TROPICAL
80% of its land is located between the tropics
Caracteristic UNDERDEVLOPED
people living with less than 1.9 US$ a day
Caracteristic DEVELOPING
Over 2000 ethnic groups
Africa is vast … with a land area of … km2, … times the size of Canada
continent
30 km2
3
The … as large as … isolated … or … from the rest of the world for centuries
Sahara Desert
continental USA
Black
Sub-Saharan Africa
The … and … the … difficult to navigate and … also played an important role in … Africa from the rest of the world for a long time
Oceans
Seas
Rivers
Africa’s massiveness
isolating
…% of Africa stands between the …
80%
Tropics
The … religion prevails throughout … and the … countries of the Mediterranean Sea
Islam
Saharan Africa
Maghreb
… has a … population, extremely diversified … and the … religion growing in importance as you travel south
Sub-Saharan Africa
black
languages
Christian
The … is the … river on earth (… km)
Nile River
longest
6650 km
In 2019, …% of the people infected with … worldwide were living in …
70%
HIV/AIDS
Sub-Saharan Africa
One of the most affected country is … where …% of its population has contracted the virus
South Africa
19%
The … located mostly in the … and … regions, is an area where … are moving apart from each other
Great Riff Valley
Horn of Africa
East Africa
two main tectonic plates
The divergent plates create an important depression with a lot of … and where many … are found
geotermal activity
volcanoes
In the … layer of the atmosphere, the … drops by … for every … meters as you go up
lower
temperature
6.5 degree celcius
1000 m
This is why there are glaciers on top of mountains at the Equator, such as …
Mount Kilimanjaro
