Africa

Unit IIMr. Napier and Mr. Newhall

Standard SS7G1

SS7G1 The student will locate selected features of Africa.

a. Locate on a world and regional political physical map: the Sahara, Sahel, savanna, tropical rain forest, Congo River, Niger River, Nile River, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Atlas Mts. And Kalahari Desert.

b. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map the countries of Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Sudan.

Africa• Angola• Botswana• Central

African Republic

• Chad• Dem. Rep. of

Congo• Ethiopia• Ghana• Kenya• Madagascar• Mali• Mauritania• Mozambique

• Namibia• Niger• Nigeria• Rwanda• Somalia• South Africa• Tanzania• Uganda• Zambia• Zimbabwe• Sierra Leone• Sudan

Warm Up - Africa

1. What is the longest river in Africa?2. What is the largest desert in Africa?3. What country has the largest population?4. Where did Colonel Gadhafi rule?5. What nation enforced a legal separation of

races?6. Name three African nations which border the

Indian Ocean?7. Name the highest mountain in Africa.

Maps of Africa

AfricaName each area?

Africa Places

• Sahara Desert• Kalahari Desert• Congo River• Niger River• Nile River• Lake Tanganyika• Lake Victoria• Atlas Mountains• Mr. Kilimanjaro• Mt. Kenya

Geographic Terms

• Identify1. Sahara

2. Sahel

3. Savanna

4. Tropical rain forest

• Answers1. Largest desert in world.

North Africa2. 5 Landlocked nations –

grassland and small trees, few people

3. Grasslands, hot, large animal herds

4. Hot, much rain, canopy of trees, abundant wildlife

Homework – The Sahel

• Pages 540-546–Questions 1-4