World Geography Notes--Africa

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What is Africa known as?

"A Continent of Natural Wonders"

What did people call Africa before the late 19th century?

"Dark Continent"

How many times has the Suez Canal been closed?

2 times

What percent of the Western Isle is Muslims of Arab or Berber descent?

99%

What is Bantu?

A language and ethnic group in Africa

What is the capital of Ethiopia?

Addis Ababa

What were the Boers later named?

Afrikaners

What is the capital of Algeria?

Algiers

Cush (or Kush)

An ancient civilization in Africa. It is often referred to as Nubia and was similar to Ancient Egypt in many aspects including government, culture, and religion

What mountain range rises to the height of 13,000 feet along the northwestern coast?

Atlas Mountains

What nomadic people were the Maghreb known as?

Berbers

Who became the first African American bishop to be ordained by the Church of England?

Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther

What is the capital of Egypt?

Cairo

What is the capital of South Africa?

Cape Town

What river feeds into Lake Chad?

Chari River

The key river of Central Africa?

Congo River

The Congo river Basin incudes what republics?

Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of the Congo, and, Central African Republic

Who were the Boers?

Dutch farmers who settled around Cape Town

What is Africa's most dramatic geographic feature?

Eastern Rift System

What is the largest Rift in the world?

Eastern Rift System

What was the small country that succeeded from Ethiopia leaving it landlocked?

Eritrea

What countries occupy the "Horn of Africa"?

Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, And Somalia

The first recorded African Christian

Ethiopian Eunuch

What is the modern capital of Sierra Leone?

Freetown

What is the official language of the Democratic Republic of Congo?

French

Who is known as the "Father of Peace"?

Frumentius

Egypt's first president

Gamal Abdel Nasser

What country became the first African nation south of the Sahara to achieve independence from Britain?

Ghana

Marks the edge of the continent's plateau in Southern Africa

Great Escarpment

What are the mountains that form the edge of the southern African plateau?

Great Escarpment

What is the Eastern Rift System also known as?

Great Rift Valley

Who was the emperor who modernized Ethiopia?

Haile Selassie I

Who was Joseph Mobutu?

He overthrew the gov. in 1965 and became the new dictator and renamed Congo to Zaire

What explorer traced the Congo to its source in 1877?

Henry M. Stanley

The main religion of Egypt

Islam

What is the most dominant religion in Mauritania?

Islam

Who became Kenya's first president?

Jomo Kenyatta

Who was the strong socialist leader that instituted economic reforms that transformed Tanzania into a Communist state in 1967?

Julius Nyerere

Southern Africa's largest desert region

Kalahari Desert

In what capital do the White Nile and the Blue Nile meet?

Khartoum

What is the capital od Sudan?

Khartoum

What is the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Kinshasa

Who was the first president/dictator of Ghana?

Kwame Nkrumah

What is the capital of Nigeria?

Lagos

What is the second-deepest river in the world?

Lake Tanganyika

What is the world's longest freshwater lake?

Lake Tanganyika

What is Africa's largest lake?

Lake Victoria

What is the world's second largest body of freshwater?

Lake Victoria

Gefara Plain

Libya's most productive farmland

Names of the lands of west Egypt

Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco

Who were the two African American missionaries to Liberia?

Lott Carey and Colin Teague

What is the World's fourth largest island?

Madagascar

What was name of the event when the Kikuyu and other hostile tribes massacred 1,700 Africans and about 100 European settlers and missionaries?

Mau Mau Rebellion

What five countries occupy the Sahel?

Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan

A coastal city of East Africa that was an important trade center

Mombasa

What country controls Western Sahara?

Morocco

Western Isle

Morocco, Algeria, and Libya

What is the second highest peak in Africa?

Mount Kenya

What is the highest peak in Africa?

Mount Kilimanjaro

What Channel separates Madagascar from the southeast coast of the mainland of Africa?

Mozambique Channel

This Colonel overthrew the new king in 1969. He removed all signs of Italian culture and instituted a military dictatorship.

Muammar Qaddafi

Who set up a military dictatorship in Libya?

Muammar Qaddafi

What is the capital of Kenya?

Nairobi

South Africa's first black president

Nelson Mandela

What river and its tributaries form the largest river system in Western Africa?

Niger River

Countries west of Sudan that were known as the "French Sahel"?

Niger, Chad, Mali, and Mauritania

In what country is the Niger River delta found?

Nigeria

What is the world's longest river?

Nile River

List six major river systems in Africa?

Nile, Niger, Congo, Orange, Limpopo, and Zambezi

Who were the Masai?

Nomadic cattle-herding people of what is now Kenya and Tanzania.

What is the world's largest desert?

Sahara Desert

What desert covers most of Northern Africa?

Sahara desert

What river forms the border between Sudan and Mauritania?

Senegal River

What are the countries of Western Africa?

Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra-Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria

What is a large savanna in eastern Africa known for its big game animals?

Serengeti Plain

What are the two countries in Western Africa that were settled by free slaves?

Sierra Leone and Liberia

What is Africa's newest nation as of July 2011?

South Sudan

What separates Africa from Europe?

Strait of Gibraltar

What separates Africa from Asia?

Suez Canal

Karnak

The Karnak Temple is a city of temples built over 2,000 years and dedicated to the Theban triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu.

What did the Greek historian Herodotus call Egypt?

The gift of the nile

Where does Egypt get a good majority of its income?

Through the Suez Canal

The capital of Libya

Tripoli

What is the capital of Tunisia?

Tunis

What countries lie between the Eastern Rift System and the Indian Ocean?

Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, and Tanzania

Africa's largest waterfall (it is sometimes considered as one of the Seven wonders of the world)

Victoria Falls

What does "Djezirah al-Maghreb" mean"?

Western Isle

A disputed desert country along the Atlantic coast

Western Sahara

What is the capital of Cameron?

Yaoundé

What four tribes control Nigeria?

Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, and Fulani

What was the Democratic Republic of Congo formally known as?

Zaire

What is the Eastern Rift System?

a huge rift in eastern Africa

Belgium Congo

claimed by Belgium and started scramble for Africa

Serengeti National Park

large plain of grasslands, trees, and water in Tanzania where wildlife thrives

Carthage

powerful ancient city-state located in North Africa

What has enabled year-round crops to be grown in Egypt?

the Aswan High Dam

Who founded Cape Town?

the Dutch

Barbary Coast

the Maghreb area was once populated by the Berbers and called by this name known for its fierce pirates a coast in North Africa

The vast marshy area between the White Nile and the Blue Nile, and is the world's largest swamp?

the Sudd

What did the Herodotus call Egypt

the gift of the Nile


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