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Color and Label the Physiographic map of Africa:
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Atlas Mts.
Sahara Desert
Senegal River
Niger River
Sahel
Savanna
Tropical Rain Forest
Congo Zaire River
Congo basin
Kalahari Desert
Great Rift Valley
Lake Victoria
Serengeti Plain
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Ethiopian Highlands
Drakensberg Mts.
Zambezi River
Namib Desert
Nile River
Blue Nile
Lake Tanganyika
Orange River
White Nile River
Cape of Good Hope
Lake Chad
Mediterranean Sea
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Madagascar
Red Sea
The Horn of Africa

Answer these questions.
Mapping Questions: Africa Ch.20:1
1. What is the strip of dry grassland on the southern border of the Sahara Desert?
2. What is the mountainous region located near the horn of East Africa?
3. What is the tallest mountain in Africa?
4. What is Africa’s largest lake?
5. What is the longest river in Africa?
6. What extensive rainforest covers a large part of central Africa and is almost completely surrounded by mountains?
7. What is the largest desert in southern Africa?
8. What is the major river in western Africa that empties into the Gulf of Guinea?
9. What is the enormous desert that stretches across North Africa?
10. What is the mountain range in Northwestern Africa?
11. What is the largest river flowing through the Congo Basin and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean?
12. What ocean lies east of Africa?
13. What is the great valley that extends, with several breaks, from Syria to central Mozambique?
14. What is the broad, level area of land that is located in north central Tanzania and extends east of the southeastern shore of Lake Victoria ?
15. What island is located about 240 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa?
16. What ocean lies west of Africa?
17. What is the large body of water that separates Africa from Europe?
18. What is the sea that is actually an arm of the Indian Ocean and extends northwest between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula?

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