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Southern Africa

Southern Africa. Geography and Economy/Impact. Geography. Coastal Plains. Sloping, flat, rolling plains near the oceans Fertile land Coastal plains range in depth Hundreds of kilometers in Mozambique Just a few kilometers in South Africa. Namib & Kalahari Deserts. High Veldt (Plateaus).

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Southern Africa

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  1. Southern Africa Geography and Economy/Impact

  2. Geography

  3. Coastal Plains • Sloping, flat, rolling plains near the oceans • Fertile land • Coastal plains range in depth • Hundreds of kilometers in Mozambique • Just a few kilometers in South Africa

  4. Namib & Kalahari Deserts

  5. High Veldt (Plateaus) • Most dominant physical feature in Southern Africa • 3/4 of region’s area • Huge mountain range that has been worn by millions of years of erosion

  6. Rivers and Lakes • Zambezi River basin + watershed • Longest river in region • Covers as much land as the U.S. east of the Mississippi River • Limpopo River • forms the border btwn. Botswana and S. Africa • Also the border btwn. Zimbabwe and S. Africa • Orange River • Forms border btwn. Namibia and S. Africa

  7. Victoria Falls (Zambezi River)

  8. Economy/Impact

  9. Farming • Many people of European descent practice sedentary farming • What is sedentary farming? • Agriculture conducted at permanent settlements • Some plantations in S. Africa & Zimbabwe • Mostly foreign-owned • Zimbabwe: land distribution problems • Less than 1% of the population held 70% of the land • Arguments  violence  collapse of agricultural econ.

  10. Problems • Overgrazing • Overworked soils • Lack of technology • Food production has decreased

  11. Mineral Wealth S. Africa is the world’s largest producer of gold

  12. Controversial Sales • 1970s – poachers illegally killed nearly 80,000 elephants a year • 1997 - Ivory Sales • Botswana, Namibia, & Zimbabwe gained approval to sell stockpiles of ivory to Japan • Why might this be controversial?

  13. Section 2 of Input 20: Culture on pg. 545 Human Impact on pg. 567

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