Earth Science 7-Africa3
Earth Science 7-Global Regions Index
Contents
Countries of Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Elevation
Highest point: Kilimanjaro is located in northeastern Tanzania (elevation 19,340 feet [5,895 m]), it is the highest mountain in Africa. Lowest Point: Lake Assal(155m below sea level)
Latitude and Longitude
Large Bodies of Water
Rivers:
The Nile River is 6695 kilometers (4184 miles) long. Nile River is the longest river in the world. The Congo River (also known as the Zaire) is over 2,720 miles (4,375 km) long. The Congo is the fifth longest river in the world. The Niger is one of the great rivers of Africa. It stretches over 2,500 miles in a long arc running from Guinea to Mali. The Zambezi flows into the Indian Ocean, an amazing 2 700 km. Victoria Falls is on the Zambezi river, between Zambia and Zimbabwe
Lakes:
Lake Victoria the main reservoir of the Nile River and is also the largest lake in Africa. Lake Victoria is the second largest lake in the world after Lake Superior. Lake Tanganyika is the longest lake in the world, boasting a length of 420 miles, and is the second deepest in the world, reaching a depth of 4,710 feet. It is the second largest lake in Africa, after Lake Victoria, covering about 12,700 square miles. Lake Malawi, known locally as Lake Nyasa, is the ninth largest lake in the world and lies between the countries of Malawi on the west and Tanzania and Mozambique on the east. It is 360 miles long and 25 miles wide, with an approximate area of 8,683 sq mi, and reaches depths of 2,300 feet. The lake has a visibility of up to 70 feet.
Major Topographic Features
Its Olduvai Gorge region is known as the "cradle of humanity," the site of the earliest known human habitation. The arid Sahara is Earth's largest desert. Mt. Kilimanjaro, despite its proximity to the equator, is tall enough to sport glaciers, though they are rapidly melting due to climate change (scientists hope to combine the new elevation data with other satellite imagery of the area to better monitor and understand the environmental changes taking place there). The Great Rift Valley is one of the world's longest earthquake faults. Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world behind the U.S. Lake Superior. The Congo Basin is home to the second largest concentration of rainforests on Earth behind South America's Amazon. And, of course, there are the great savannas, such as the Serengeti, which teem with some of Earth's most exotic wildlife, including plenty of those elephants.
Bibliography
- http://www.worldatlas.com/cntycont.htm
- http://goafrica.about.com/b/2008/11/10/lake-assal-and-the-salt-caravans.htm
- http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/ontheline/explore/journey/mali/niger.htm
- http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/the_land/congo_river.shtml
- http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/river-nile-facts.html
- http://www.victoriafalls-guide.net/zambezi-river.html
- http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/lakes_east_africa.php
- http://goafrica.about.com/od/africatraveltips/ig/Maps-of-Africa/Topographical-Map-of-Africa.htm
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