Welcome Please find your name and sit with

Welcome • Please find your name and sit with your group. • When class starts, please decide who will be your group leader for the day. – The group leader will be the only person to bring answers to me. • Pick someone to get a textbook for everyone in the group.

Unscrambled Landforms • You job as a group is to unscramble to letters on the orange strips of paper. • You will then write the unscrambled term on a piece of paper and place the paper under the appropriate grouping on the floor. • The first group finished wins the leg of the contest.

Thirty Questions • You job as a group is to answer all thirty questions in your envelope. • The group leader may bring the answers up to me to check them for correctness. • The first group finished wins the leg of the contest.

Making a Map • Your job as a group is to place the cut outs into a map of Africa. • You will do this on the floor. • The first group finished wins the leg of the contest.

Africa Physical Geography

Plateaus • Africa is a gigantic plateau. One plateau follows another as the land rises from the west to east in a series of steps. • Separating the plateaus are steep cliffs called escarpments. • Rivers that spill over the escarpments in waterfalls are known as cataracts.

Plateaus

Escarpments

Cataracts

Quiz • Africa is a gigantic _____. A. B. C. D. Island Plateau Desert Cataracts

Quiz • A. B. C. D. Separating the plateaus are steep cliffs called _______. Escarpments Plateaus Cataracts Deserts

Mountains • Despite the high elevations, Africa possesses few mountains. – Drakensburg Mtns. – Ruwenzori Mtns. • Mount Kilimanjara is Africa’s highest mountain.

Mount Kilimanjaro

Great Rift Valley • One of the world’s natural wonders, the valley stretches from the Jordan River in Southwest Asia to the Zambezi River in Mozambique. • Y-shaped trench 3500 miles long with escarpments more than a mile high. • Cuts in the Great Rift Valley form the continent’s largest lakes.

Great Rift Valley

Quiz The Great Rift Valley is ______ miles long. A. 30000 B. 3500 C. 300 D. 30

Water Systems: Lakes • Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world and the source of the White Nile. It is also named after the British Queen, Victoria. • Tanganyika is the world’s longest freshwater lake at 420 miles long. • Lake Malawi is the 3 rd greatest lake in Africa and is known for it’s many types of fish.

Lake Victoria: Satellite Image

Lake Victoria

Lake Tanganyika: Satellite Image

Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika

Quiz Lake Victoria is named after ______. A. Queen of Ethiopia B. Queen of England C. Queen of France D. Queen of Africa

Quiz _______ is the longest fresh water lake in the world. A. Victoria B. Erie C. Lanier D. Tanganyika

Water Systems: Rivers/Falls • There are four major rivers in Africa: Nile, Zaire, Niger, and Zambezi. • Victoria Falls, named after a British Queen, is more than twice the height of Niagara Falls.

Victoria Falls

Reinforcement Book Assignment • Page 428: – Reviewing Places & Terms • 1 -20 – Main Ideas • 1 -10 You do not need to write out the questions.