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 localated in the south of  Europe and in the southwest of Asia.
2. Africa s three times larger than United States.
3. The savanna is a grassy plain which covers nearly half of Africa.
4. In the savanna we can find animals like elephants and giraffes.
5. The chaparral is localated in the norther coast of Africa and in the south of Africa
6. The most famouses  deserts in Africa are the Sahara, Namib and Kalahari.
7. Gold mines,  rubber trees and oil.

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1.      Africa runs 5 000 miles from the Mediterranean sea all the way down to cape of good hope and 4 600 miles from cape verde all the way over to Somalia.

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 animals and plants 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 vegetaion. 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 longest river in the world. But there is also the congo river which is the  nineth longest river in the world.

6.      Africa actually has its own version of the Great Lakes with famous lakes like Lake Malawi, lake Victoria, lake Kivu  and lake Tanganyika.

7.      All the Africa is a plateau. Meaning that Africa itself is an elevated land. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find any  mountains ranges in Africa. You can find mountain ranges like, for example, the atlas in northwestern Africa.

8.      Africa also has some interesting mountains like Mt. Kilimanjaro , the highest pick 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 tectonics 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 elevantions in Africa, but also lakes like tanganiyka that is among the deapest in the world.