Welcome

1. Welcome • Please find your name and sit with your group. • When class starts, please decide who will be your group leader for the day. • The group leader will be the only person to bring answers to me. • Pick someone to get a textbook for everyone in the group.

2. Unscrambled Landforms • You job as a group is to unscramble to letters on the orange strips of paper. • You will then write the unscrambled term on a piece of paper and place the paper under the appropriate grouping on the floor. • The first group finished wins the leg of the contest.

3. Thirty Questions • You job as a group is to answer all thirty questions in your envelope. • The group leader may bring the answers up to me to check them for correctness. • The first group finished wins the leg of the contest.

4. Making a Map • Your job as a group is to place the cut outs into a map of Africa. • You will do this on the floor. • The first group finished wins the leg of the contest.

5. Africa Physical Geography

6. Plateaus • Africa is a gigantic plateau. One plateau follows another as the land rises from the west to east in a series of steps. • Separating the plateaus are steep cliffs calledescarpments. • Rivers that spill over the escarpments in waterfalls are known ascataracts.

7. Plateaus

8. Escarpments

9. Cataracts

10. Quiz • Africa is a gigantic __________. • Island • Plateau • Desert • Cataracts

11. Quiz • Separating the plateaus are steep cliffs called ______________. • Escarpments • Plateaus • Cataracts • Deserts

12. Mountains • Despite the high elevations, Africa possesses few mountains. • Drakensburg Mtns. • Ruwenzori Mtns. • Mount Kilimanjara is Africa’s highest mountain.

13. Mount Kilimanjaro

14. Great Rift Valley • One of the world’s natural wonders, the valley stretches from the Jordan River in Southwest Asia to the Zambezi River in Mozambique. • Y-shaped trench 3500 miles long with escarpments more than a mile high. • Cuts in the Great Rift Valley form the continent’s largest lakes.

15. Great Rift Valley

16. Quiz The Great Rift Valley is ___________ miles long. • 30000 • 3500 • 300 • 30

17. Water Systems: Lakes • Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world and the source of the White Nile. It is also named after the British Queen, Victoria. • Tanganyika is the world’s longest freshwater lake at 420 miles long. • Lake Malawi is the 3rd greatest lake in Africa and is known for it’s many types of fish.

18. Lake Victoria: Satellite Image

19. Lake Victoria

20. Lake Tanganyika: Satellite Image

21. Lake Tanganyika

22. Lake Tanganyika

23. Quiz Lake Victoria is named after ____________. • Queen of Ethiopia • Queen of England • Queen of France • Queen of Africa

24. Quiz _____________ is the longest fresh water lake in the world. • Victoria • Erie • Lanier • Tanganyika

25. Water Systems: Rivers/Falls • There are four major rivers in Africa: Nile, Zaire, Niger, and Zambezi. • Victoria Falls, named after a British Queen, is more than twice the height of Niagara Falls.

26. Victoria Falls

27. Reinforcement Book Assignment • Page 428: • Reviewing Places & Terms • 1-20 • Main Ideas • 1-10 You do not need to write out the questions.