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Location•Where is Africa located?•Which hemisphere is Africa located?
•What major bodies of water surround the continent of Africa?
Africa is the only continent in the world that is located in all four hemispheres!
Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
IndianOcean
Red Sea
Quiz time ….Which country is the only country to border both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean?
Which country is the only country to border both the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean?
Morocco
South Africa
Cape of Good HopeCape Agulhas
Cape Agulhas – southernmost point of African continent and dividing line
between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Quiz time ….Which countries lie in both the northern and southern hemispheres?
Which countries lie in both the western and eastern hemispheres? (south of the Sahara)
Gabon, Rep. of the Congo, Dem. Rep. of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia
Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana
Place (What makes Africa different from
other places?)
•What types of climate does Africa have?
•What types of physical features are there in Africa?
Mediterranean
Mediterranean
Desert
Desert
Desert
Rainforest
Steppe
Savanna
http://www.courses.psu.edu/aaa_s/aaa_s110_tah/AFIM/Main_HTML/M_CL.html
Go to above web site to learn about the different climates of Africa.
What are the major physical
features of Africa?
Physical features of Africa
Atlas Mountains
Sahara Desert
Kalahari Desert
Namib Desert
Horn of Africa
Great Rift
Valley
Sahel
Namib Desert
Stretching 1,200 miles in length, but averaging a width of only 70 miles, the
Namib Desert is home to the highest sand dunes in the world. Nicknamed the
world’s oldest desert.
Dune 7, the highest sand dune in the world
Nile RiverNiger River
Congo RiverLake Victoria
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Nyasa
Major rivers and lakes
Zambezi River
Lake Victoria
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Nyasa
The Great Lakes of Africa
Longest lake in the world
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika –As seen from space
Lake Tanganyika• Second largest lake of Africa• Longest lake of the world• Deepest lake on the African
continent• Second deepest in the world (Lake
Baikal in Russia is the deepest)• Oldest lake in Africa and perhaps in
the world
Victoria Falls
Located in Zimbabwe
on the Zambezi
River
Victoria Falls Victoria Falls is twice as wide and twice as deep as Niagara
Falls
Thus creating the largest curtain of
water in the world!
The Zambezi River flowing into Victoria Falls
Mountains of Africa
Ethiopian Highlands
Drakensberg Mountains
Mt. Kilimanjaro
The snow-capped
mountain is located in Tanzania and is the
highest point in Africa.
However, Kilimanjaro may not always be snow-capped! The glaciers of Kilimanjaro are melting at an alarming rate!
Why? Humans … global warming, deforestation, and honey!
Tribes people collecting honey smoke the bees out of the hives, often starting fires. The loss of foliage reduces moisture in the air, thus reducing much needed cloud cover, thus letting in more sunlight that melts more ice!
If the current rate of melting continues, scientists predict that the glaciers that have covered Kilimanjaro for over 12,000 years will be totally gone by
2020 – less than 8 years from now!
African tectonic plate
Arabian tectonic plate
Great Rift
Valley
•Vast geological feature that runs north to south for 6,000 miles
•From Syria in Southwest Asia to Mozambique in East Africa
As the tectonic plates continue to break apart,
the rift will become bigger and bigger until finally breaking off from the rest of the continent of Africa … in
about 20 billion years! Thus,
creating a whole new island continent!
A few other aspects to look at …
…enclave, exclave,
and landlocked
What is an enclave? A country that is entirely surrounded, or mostly surrounded, by another
country. Lesotho and Swaziland are examples.
Lesotho
Swaziland
So, what is an exclave? Territory of
a country that is
separated from the
main part of the country by foreign territory. Cabinda is an exclave of Angola.
Landlocked
Shut in completely by land … having no direct access to the sea …
Rwanda and Uganda are examples
Words and places to know…