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What is the tallest point of elevation in Africa?

What is the tallest point of elevation in Africa?. What is unique about Mt. Kilimanjaro?. Factors that affect climate. Over 19,000 ft. Tallest free standing mountain 3 degrees below the equator Why does it always have snow on top? The higher the elevation, the lower the temperature.

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What is the tallest point of elevation in Africa?

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  1. What is the tallest point of elevation in Africa?

  2. What is unique about Mt. Kilimanjaro?

  3. Factors that affect climate • Over 19,000 ft. • Tallest free standing mountain • 3 degrees below the equator • Why does it always have snow on top? • The higher the elevation, the lower the temperature

  4. Why do so many people in Africa live around Lake Victoria?

  5. It is a major fresh water source for neighboring countries

  6. Lake Victoria • 2nd largest lake in surface area in the World to Lake Superior • What is up with the name? Doesn’t sound African • Discovered by an English explorer in 1858/named after Queen Victoria

  7. What countries produce the most oil in Africa?

  8. Oil • Nigeria has the most in Africa/10th in the world • Found mainly on the Niger River Delta • -Libya, Nigeria, an Algeria are leading producers in the world (7%) • -many countries such as the U. S. pay for drilling rights and the oil while countries like Angola use the money for civil war instead of school and hospitals

  9. Nigeria • Algeria • Libya • Angola • Egypt

  10. What is this and where in Africa is it found?

  11. The Okapi is found in the Congo rain forest

  12. Where in Africa is this?

  13. What about here?

  14. What vocab term does this picture represent?

  15. Berlin Conference • 1884-1885 • 14 European Nation laid down rules for the division of Africa. • No African rulers were invited. • African tribes seen as socially inferior so they dominated the people and their land. • Effect: divided Africa without regard to where African ethnic groups lived. Boundaries combined people who were enemies.

  16. How were South Africa and early 20th century U. S. similar in how they handled different races in their countries?

  17. Separation of races • Called apartheid in South Africa/enacted in 1948 • Racial discrimination • Causes: British and Dutch (Afrikaners) wanted to control abundant natural resources (diamonds/gold) • Effects: African tribes were segregated and lost voting rights

  18. Write a sentence based on the information in the chart.

  19. Nelson Mandela • After apartheid, became President of South Africa from 1994-1999 • Spent 27 years in prison • 94 yrs old • Died in 2013

  20. Why would the African country of Ethiopia be considered behind the times?

  21. Ethiopia has its own calendar, which is based on the Coptic Calendar, which in turn is based on the ancient Egyptian calendar. In Ethiopia, the current year is 2006 AD.

  22. Coptic calendar: 12 30 day months and an extra 5 or 6 day month • Around 8 years behind the Gregorian calendar which is what we follow (Christian calendar/most widely accepted worldwide) • Year starts on Sept. 11 • Many Muslims follow a lunar calendar

  23. MamadouNdiaye, 7’6” center who plays for the UC-Irvine He is from West African country Senegal

  24. How does the Congo, smart phones, Xbox, and Wii relate to each other?

  25. The mineral coltan (columbite tantalite) • Estimated 80% of the world’s supply in the Congo • Key component in modern electronic circuitry • Profits could be used to finance civil wars

  26. Mineral Resources • Mineral resources • -one of the world’s richest continents b/c of large amounts of gold, platinum, chromium, cobalt, copper, and diamonds • -South Africa is largest producer of chromium (stainless steel) • -South Africa produces around 80% of world’s platinum; 30% gold • -42% cobalt (used in high-grade steel for aircraft and industrial engines) comes from Africa • -has not created wealth in Africa b/c not industrialized enough to turn minerals into valuable goods (export to Europe) they lack secondary economic activity

  27. What does the country Cote d’Ivoire translate into?

  28. Ivory Coast • Once a French colony/French is official language • Located in West Africa • World largest exporter of cocoa

  29. What do Rwanda and Nazi Germany have in common? Rwanda

  30. Genocide • Hutu majority tried to eliminate the Tutsi minority in 1994 • Close to 1 million Tutsis were killed/mainly by machetes and clubs.

  31. What vocabulary term best describes this?

  32. Sustainability • Not being harmful to the environment • Not depleting natural resources

  33. ‘Our earth has enough
for everyone's needs but
not for everyone's greed’
Mahatma Gandhi

  34. Why is today important in many European countries, Brazil, and a certain city in the United States?

  35. Mardi Gras • Fat Tuesday (also called Shrove Tuesday) • What is it called in Brazil? • Last day before Lent (6 weeks until Easter) • Where does this fit in ESPN? Social

  36. It is even celebrated in Senegal

  37. How did the African slave trade of the 16th and 17th centuries affect the Southern U. S., the Caribbean Islands, and South America?

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