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Rift Valley Countries Water Maps People andCultures

The Great Rift Valley runs alongwhich side of Africa, East or

West?

East

The rift valley has been created by the movement of Earth plates

toward or away from each other?

Away

Many of these fill with water along the rift valley as

the Earth separates.

Lakes

This mountain, Africa’s tallest,

was created from volcanic activity along the rift valley.

Mount Kilimanjaro

These birds often live in conditions that other species cannot.

Flamingos

This East African country is home to Mount Kilimanjaro,

Africa’s tallest.

Tanzania

One of the world’s oldest

Christian traditions exists

in this East African country.

Ethiopia

This East African country is the

ancestral home to Barack

Obama’s family.

Kenya

This country is Africa’s largest.

The capital, Khartoum, lies at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile

Rivers.

Sudan

The island of Socotra belongs to Yemen though it lies closer to this East

African country.

Somalia

This ocean borders Africa to the East.

Indian Ocean

These long bodies of water are used by ships for transportation between

many East African countries.

Lakes

The longest fresh water lake in the world is this lake which forms the border between Tanzania and the

Democratic Republic of Congo.

Lake Tanganyika

This lake is Africa’s largest and the source of water for the Nile River.

Lake Victoria

Often used in aquariums, these species of fish are native to the Rift Valley lakes of East

Africa.

Cichlids

This country forms the “Horn

of Africa.”

Somalia

Sudan

Kenya

A former British colony, this country gets its name from

the Buganda Kingdom that ruled

the region in the 14th century.

Uganda

This country broke from

Ethiopia and declared its

independence in 1993.

Eritrea

Many of the world’s great

athletes in this sport have come from East Africa.

Track or running.

Many tourists to East Africa travel to view scenes like this on one of these, a journey or expedition for

hunting or exploration.

Safari

Many scientists believe that the earliest of

these animals evolved in the Rift Valley of Africa at sites like Olduvai Gorge in

modern day Tanzania and Aramis, Ethiopia.

Humans

Members of this traditional nomadic ethnic group of Kenya and Tanzania are among the

most famous in Africa

Maasai

Whether written in the Arabic or Roman alphabet, this language is

the most commonly spoken in East Africa.

Swahili