Africa
African countries began winning their independence in what year?
1941
What is the capital of Nigeria?
Abuja
What is the capital of Ethiopia?
Addis Ababa
What is the capital of Algeria?
Algiers
What is the capital of Africa's large island country to the east?
Antananarivo
What is the capital of Egypt?
Cairo
What cape is on the southwestern tip of Africa?
Cape of Good Hope
What is Africa's westernmost capital?
Dakar
What African country borders the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea ?
Egypt
Do African rivers begin at the coast or end at the coast.
End at the coast
True or false the Sahara is in southern Africa?
False
True or false the Sahara is made up entirely of sand?
False
True or false the hottest temperature on record 136.4 was taken in Death Valley?
False
What is the capital of Congo?
Kinshasa
What large African lake does the Equator cross?
Lake Victoria
What lake in Ghana does the Prime Meridian cross?
Lake Volta
What large island is east of Mozambique?
Madagascar
Which sea is directly north of Africa?
Mediterranean Sea
What is the capital of Somalia?
Mogadishu
What channel is west of Madagascar?
Mozambique
What mountain is shown in the elephant picture?
Mt.Kilimanjaro
What is Africa's southernmost country?
South Africa
Which strait lies between Morocco and Spain?
Strait of Gibralter
What country shares borders with Egypt and Ethiopia?
Sudan
In many places in Africa what is the only common language?
The language of the last colonial power.
True or false Sahara means "desert" in Arabic?
True
True or false the Sahara is larger than 48 contiguous United States?
True
True or false the Sahara is the largest desert in the world?
True
What African country is closest to Italy?
Tunisia
Today the only territory in Africa is what?
West Sahara
What river is in the picture of Victoria Falls?
Zambezi River
