Geography-Africa video
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
1. Where in the world is Africa?
2. How many times is Africa larger than The United States?
3. How is the savanna defined in the video?
4. Which animals can be found in the savanna biome?
5. Where is located the chaparral biome in Africa?
6. Which are the most famous deserts in Africa?
7. The main natural resources mentioned in the video are ....
1. Africa is located at the South of Europe and at the Southwest of Asia.
2. Africa is three times the size of The United States.
3. The savanna biome is defined in the video as a grassy plain which covers nearly half of Africa.It's characterized by scattered trees among a landscape of grasses and shrubs.
4. The most common animals that can be found in the savanna biome are elephants and giraffes.
5. The chaparral biome is located at northern coast of Africa and along the Mediterranean coast and there is also in the south of Africa as well.
6. The most famous deserts in Africa are the Sahara desert, the Namib desert and the Kalahari desert.
7. The main natural resources mentioned in the video are gold mines,rober trees and oil.
FIND THE MISSING WORDS
1. Africa runs 5 000 miles from the Mediterranean sea all the way
down to
the Cape of Good Hope and 4 600 miles from Cape
Verde all the way over to Senegal.
2. Biomes are climate zones and throughout that area, throughout that
climate zones , you can see the same average temperature and average precipitations what
that means is that you also see very similar vegetation and fauna living
in that region.
3. The most famous desert in Africa is, of course,
the Sahara desert. Now, some parts of the Sahara desert
are sandy, like you can see here. Other
parts of the Sahara desert are rocky but in
either case, the fact that it is very dry is
going to make it a very difficult period to cross.
4. It is not the rain itself that’s
particularly important, it’s also the environment diversity.There
are many different fauna and vegetation. That can be
found in the rain forest and that’s one of
the thing that makes the rain forest so valuable not just
in Africa but throughout the Earth.
5. The Nile is the most famous river in Africa, because is the largest river in the world. But there is also
the Congo river which is the second longest river
in the world.
6. Africa actually has its own version of the Great Lakes with famous lakes
like Lake Kivu,lake Malawi,lake Victoria and lake Tanganyika.
7. All the Africa is a plateau. Meaning
that Africa itself is an elevated land.
But that doesn’t mean that you can’t find any mountain ranges like, for
example, the Atlas mountains in
northwestern Africa.
8. Africa also has some interesting mountains like Kilimanjaro mountain , the highest mountain in Africa which seems to
just rise on it own out of the ground.
9. The Great Rift Valley refers to a region of Africa that is
literally, being split apart. There are
some tectonic plates that are located within or near
Africa, that are, actually moving away from
each other, and what’s doing is creating not just some of the highest elevations in Africa, but also lakes like Tanganyika that is among the deepest in the world.
