Post on 25-Dec-2015
•Why do Why do geographers say geographers say Africa is centrally Africa is centrally located?located?
•NORTH AFRICA• Stretches from Morocco in the West to Egypt in the East
• Close contact with Europe and the Middle East
•WEST AFRICA•South of the Sahara Desert and bulges into the Atlantic Ocean
•From Mauritania to Nigeria
•CENTRAL AFRICA
•Includes Nigeria
•EAST AFRICA•Largest nations•Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
•SOUTHERN AFRICA•From Atlantic to Indian Ocean
•Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa
•Slices through the Eastern part of the country
•A giant fault, or break, in the earth’s crust
•From Red Sea to Zambezi River
• What does the lines of latitude measure? What is another name for the lines of latitude?
• What does the lines of longitude measure? What is another name for longitude?
• Alternating wet and dry seasons• Rains south of equator, north is
in dry season• Less than an inch in desert areas • 80 inches a year near equator
•Equator runs through middle
•80% in Tropics•Tropics between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn