- Southern Africa Geography
- Countries
- Southern Africa is made up of
Drakensberg Mountain Range Dragon Mountains Southern African Plains
Okavango River
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- A plateau is an area made up of land that rises
- directly into the air from a narrow plain.
- An escarpment is the steep face at the edge of
- the plateau or other raised area.
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- ~Both the mountains and the plains play important roles in
Southern Africas geography.
- ~The mountains serve as borders between neighboring
countries.
- Can you guess what animals you might in the plains of Southern
Africa?
- Drakensberg Mountain Range are located in South Africa. Dragon
Mountains
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- Inyanga Mountains are located between Zimbabwe and
Mozambique.
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-Flows from Angola to a basin in Botswana -Has 19 waterfalls!
- Climate and Vegetation
- Southern Africa also consist of:
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- A veld is an open grassland or savanna where short trees and
shrubs grow.
- Hold your horses
- Not all of Southern Africa is desert, Madagascar is in fact
mostly tropical forest.
Deforestation is destroying many of the animals and forests in the
tropical forests of Madagascar.
- More natural resources
- South Africa South Africa, Botswana, Namibia
- Coal Platinum Copper Uranium Iron Ore
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- Why is this ironic? (think about Central Africa)