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Warm UpDecember 13, 2010
Read- Focus on Geography on page 417. Answer the following questions: (1) What might cause people to plant or graze their animals on dry lands?
(2) What can countries do to prevent desertification?
Standards
SS7G1 The student will locate selected features of Africa.
a. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map: the Sahara, Sahel, Congo River, Niger River, Nile River, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Atlas Mountains, and Kalahari Desert.
b. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map the countries of, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Sudan.
Question:
What is the name of the mountain range located in the northwestern portion of Africa (in Algeria and Morocco)?
Question: This term means to destroy or cut
down trees. This is a major problem in rainforest of Africa. It leads to erosion of the soil.
Question:
What landform lies along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean near the equator?
(Hint: there is a city in Georgia that is pronounced the same way).
Question:
This is a transition zone that is just south of the Sahara and north of the equator. It separates the Sahara from the tropical rainforests.
Question:
This is the second longest river in Africa. It flows through west central Africa. It crosses the equator twice and is surrounded by rainforests.
Question:
This is the main river in the western part of Africa. It is just south of the Sahara and Sahel. It flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
Question:
This is a large Arid (dry) to semi-arid area in the southern part of Africa. It covers part of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
Question:
This is a long lake that lies in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo in the Great Rift Valley. It is south of Lake Victoria.
Closing Find Someone Who Can Tell You will
walk around the room and interview classmates, asking them where selected physical features are located in Africa.
1. Where is the Sahel is located? 2.What is deforestation? 3. What is desertification? 4. Where is the Kalahari Desert? 5. Where is Nigeria 6. Where is South Africa?