Africa and Australia/Ocean Fun Facts
54 countries
Africa has ____ countries
9, across the Strait of Gibraltar morocco to Spain
Africa is only about ___ miles south of Europe ( ___________ )
2nd
Africa is the _____ largest Continent
Huge crack in earth's crust, runs thru Ethiopia to Mozambique
Africa's Great Rift Valley
Lake Assal
Africa's lowest point is _____
Lake Eyre, Australia, 52 ft below sea level
Australia lowest point Is _________
20,000 - 30,000
Australia/Oceania is mostly ocean and it is estimated that there are ________ - ______ islands in Oceania
smallest
Australia/Oceania is the _______ continent
Australia Outback,
Ayers Rock is located in _____ and is sacred site
exposed rock, Uluru, Aborigines
Ayers Rock is the biggest ______ in the world. Ayers Rock is called " ____" by the ______
1770, New south Wales
Captain Cook british navigator and explorer Australia in ____ specifically the east part of the continent, claiming it for England and naming it ______
Great Barrier Reef
Captain Cook was the first one to discover
foot long, 8 lbs.
Goliath frog can grow up to be a ____ long and weigh up to ____ lbs.
Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Highest point in Africa is _________ in ______
Mt. Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea, 14,794 ft
Highest point in Australia is Mt. Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea it is __ ft
buried treasure put there by pirates but no has claimed they have found it also hoem to giant tortoise
It is believed that Moyenne island within the Ste. Anne Marine National Park, has ______
515 ft, Djibouti
Lake Assal is _____ ft below sea level in ______
Africa, 2nd
Lake Victoria is the largest lake in ____ and the ____ largest in the freshwater lake in the world.
Nile River
Lake Victoria is the main source of the _____
Avenue of the Baobabs a dirt road lined by massive centuries-old trees
Madagascar includes __________ it is a ________
Animal species, lemurs
Madagascar is home to thousands of _____ such as _____
Indian Ocean, East
Madagascar is in the ______ ocean off the ___ coast of Africa
Africa, fourth
Madagascar is the largest island in ___ and the ___ largest island in the world.
4,000 miles, 6,000 feet deep
Mozambique is about ____ miles long and places more than ____ feet deep
19,340 ft
Mt. Kilimanjaro is _______ above sea level
universal suffrage, 1893, vote
New Zealand was the first major nation to have _______ in ____ it become illegal for all male and female citizens of New Zealand to ___
Kiwis
New Zealanders are known by the nickname _____.
kiwi bird, China, New Zealand, 1959
New Zealanders nickname is originally from the name _____ the kiwi fruit that most people think of was originally from ____ and wasn't introduced to _____ until ____
region, Australia, Polynesia (many islands) Melanesia (black islands) and Micronesia (tiny islands)
Oceania is a ____ that includes ____ ___ ___ and the islands that compose the areas of _____ _____ _____
East
Seychelles a paradise off the ____ coast of Africa in the Indian ocean
Mt.Everest, Tenzing Norgay
Sir Edmund Hillary is the first man to reach the peak of ____ his climbing partner was ____
100 miles
Suez Canal is one of longest in the world it is ____ miles long
Armpit, Egypt, Sinai Peninsula
Suez Canal thru the ____ of _____ separating the ____ from the main part of Egypt
New Zealander, Auckland, 5$ bill
Tenzing Norgay was a ___ in ______ and his face is on the New Zeland ___ ___
world, 1,200
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the ___ more than ___ miles long
4,132 miles
The Nile River is _____ miles long
north, Mediterranean Sea, Nile Delta, Egypt
The Nile river flows _____ from Uganda and empties into the _________ at the _____ ____ in ____
U.S,
The Sahara desert covers an area almost as large as the entire _____ and located in Northern America
primate
The gorilla which can be found in the continent jungles is the world's largest _____
Nigeria, 184 million
The most populated country in Africa is ________ approximately _____ million
Goliath frog, Guinea and Cameroon
The world biggest frog, the _____ frog it is found in _________
Africa, Elephant
The world's largest land animal is in ___ an _____
115, Seychelles
There are _____ islands that make up the ____ archipelago.
30 miles
Victoria Falls spray can be seen from over ___ miles away
Zambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe, 355
Victoria falls on the _______ between _____ and ______ forms a wall of white water just over one mile wide and _____ feet high
South Sudan, July 9, 2011
_____ is Africa's newest country, born on ___ __, _____
Cheetah
the fastest land animals in the world is _____ lives in Africa
Nile River
the longest river in the world is ____
the Giraffe
the world's tallest animal ____ lives in Africa