3.  A continent of plateaus, basins, and rift
valleys, Africa features dense rain forests,
vast grasslands, and the world’s largest
desert.

4.  After Pangaea, the
supercontinent,
broke up 200
million years ago
Africa moved very
little, unlike
Americas,
Antarctica,
Australia, India
Africa is second
largest continent

5.  A huge plateau
covers most of
Africa, rising
inland from coasts
most of Africa is at
least 1,000 feet
above sea level
known as the
“plateau continent”

6.  The Nile River is the
world’s longest river;
flowing over 4,000
miles though Uganda,
Sudan, Egypt and
emptying out into the
Mediterranean Sea.
waters used for irrigation
95% of Egyptians get
water from Nile

7.  The Congo River is the
9th
longest river in the
world and flows over
2,900 miles.
 The Congo and its
tributaries make it one
of the largest river
networks in the world!
 Surrounding the Congo
River, is the Congo
River Basin, which is
some of the most fertile
land in the world.

8. Congo Tiger Fish

10.  Major tropical rain forests
are on equator in the Congo
River Basin
 A square acre can have
hundreds of different types
of trees, birds
 plants, trees, leaves block out
most sunlight; air is hot, moist
 Most animals live in canopy
— uppermost branches, 150
feet off ground
 birds, monkeys, flying foxes,
snakes

12.  Can you spell it?

14.  Victoria Falls is one of the
most famous falls,
considered to be among the
Seven Natural Wonders of
the World.
 It is 360 ft. tall and over a
mile wide!
 During the wet season, the
flow of water makes it the
largest waterfall in the
world! (In terms of volume).
 The natives call it Mosi-o-
Tunya, which means, the
“Smoke that thunders.”

18.  Lake Victoria is Africa’s
largest lake by area, and
it is the largest tropical
lake in the world.
 Lake Victoria is the
world's second largest
freshwater lake by surface
area.

19.  Africa mainly has
volcanic mountains:
Mount Kenya, Mount
Kilimanjaro
 Mount Kilimanjaro is
Africa’s highest
mountain and is still
an active volcano!
 It rises over 19,000
ft. above sea level

22.  The Sahara is largest
desert in world; name
means “desert” in
Arabic
 It stretches 3,000 miles
from the Atlantic to the
Red Sea; 1,200 miles
north to south
 temperatures as high as
136 degrees in summer,
freezing at night
 fewer than 2 million of
Africa’s 800 million people

23.  6,000 feet under
the Sahara are
aquifers — stores of
underground water
 When this water
comes to the
surface it creates
an oasis
 Sahara and other
deserts may go
years without rain

24.  Tropical grassland
covers most of
Africa
 Serengeti Plain —
northern Tanzania
grassland
dry climate, hard soil
prevent growth of
trees, crops

25.  Serengeti National
Park has best
grasslands in the world
some grasses grow taller
than a person
ideal for grazing animals
like wildebeests,
gazelles, zebras
site of largest numbers
of migrating land
mammals