Location

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Physical Geography of Africa
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Location

• Where is Africa located?
• Which hemisphere is Africa located?
• What major bodies of water surround the continent
  of Africa?

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Africa is the only continent in the world that is
located in all four hemispheres!
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Mediterranean Sea
Atlantic Ocean
Red Sea
Indian Ocean
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Quiz time .
Which country is the only country to border both
the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean?
Morocco
Which country is the only country to border both
the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean?
South Africa
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Cape of Good Hope
Cape Agulhas
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Cape Agulhas southernmost point of African
continent and dividing line between the Atlantic
and Indian Oceans
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Quiz time .
Which countries lie in both the northern and
southern hemispheres?
Gabon, Rep. of the Congo, Dem. Rep. of the Congo,
Uganda, Kenya, Somalia
Which countries lie in both the western and
eastern hemispheres? (south of the Sahara)
Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana
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Place

• (What makes Africa different from other places?)
• What types of climate does Africa have?
• What types of physical features are there in
  Africa?

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Mediterranean
Desert
Steppe
Desert
Rainforest
Savanna
Desert
Mediterranean
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• http//www.courses.psu.edu/aaa_s/aaa_s110_tah/AFIM
  /Main_HTML/M_CL.html
• Go to above web site to learn about the different
  climates of Africa.

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What are the major physical features of Africa?
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Physical features of Africa
Atlas Mountains
Horn of Africa
Sahara Desert
Sahel
Great Rift Valley
Kalahari Desert
Namib Desert
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Namib Desert
Stretching 1,200 miles in length, but averaging a
width of only 70 miles, the Namib Desert is home
to the highest sand dunes in the world. Nicknamed
the worlds oldest desert.
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Dune 7, the highest sand dune in the world
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Major rivers and lakes
Nile River
Niger River
Congo River
Lake Victoria
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Nyasa
Zambezi River
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Lake Victoria
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Nyasa
The Great Lakes of Africa
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Lake Tanganyika
Longest lake in the world
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Lake Tanganyika As seen from space
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Lake Tanganyika

• Second largest lake of Africa
• Longest lake of the world
• Deepest lake on the African continent
• Second deepest in the world (Lake Baikal in
  Russia is the deepest)
• Oldest lake in Africa and perhaps in the world

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Victoria Falls Located in Zimbabwe on the
Zambezi River
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Victoria Falls is twice as wide and twice as deep
as Niagara Falls
Victoria Falls
Thus creating the largest curtain of water in the
world!
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The Zambezi River flowing into Victoria Falls
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Mountains of Africa Ethiopian Highlands Drakens
berg Mountains
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Mt. Kilimanjaro
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The snow-capped mountain is located in Tanzania
and is the highest point in Africa.
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However, Kilimanjaro may not always be
snow-capped! The glaciers of Kilimanjaro are
melting at an alarming rate!
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Why? Humans global warming, deforestation,
and honey!
Tribes people collecting honey smoke the bees out
of the hives, often starting fires. The loss of
foliage reduces moisture in the air, thus
reducing much needed cloud cover, thus letting in
more sunlight that melts more ice!
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If the current rate of melting continues,
scientists predict that the glaciers that have
covered Kilimanjaro for over 12,000 years will be
totally gone by 2020 less than 15 years from
now!
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Arabian tectonic plate
Great Rift Valley
African tectonic plate
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• Vast geological feature that runs north to south
  for 6,000 miles
• From Syria in Southwest Asia to Mozambique in
  East Africa

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As the tectonic plates continue to break apart,
the rift will become bigger and bigger until
finally breaking off from the rest of the
continent of Africa in about 20 billion years!
Thus, creating a whole new island continent!
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A few other aspects to look at
enclave, exclave, and landlocked
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Swaziland
Lesotho
What is an enclave? A country that is entirely
surrounded, or mostly surrounded, by another
country. Lesotho and Swaziland are examples.
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So, what is an exclave?
Territory of a country that is separated from the
main part of the country by foreign territory.
Cabinda is an exclave of Angola.
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Landlocked Shut in completely by land having
no direct access to the sea Rwanda and Uganda
are examples
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Words and places to know

• Sahara Desert
• Savanna
• Sahel
• Congo River
• Nile River
• Zambezi River
• Niger River
• Ethiopian Highlands
• Drakensberg Mountains
• Atlas Mountains
• Kalahari Desert
• Namib Desert
• Lake Tanganyika
• Lake Victoria
• Lake Nyasa
• Enclave
• Exclave
• Landlocked
• Great Rift Valley