UPDATED Study ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Atlas Mountains - CORRECT ANSWER No crazy division; More erosion; 13,000 feet
Drakensberg Mountains - CORRECT ANSWER Eastern edge of great escarpment:
edge of the plateau region, as eroded it built up and created the southern plan africa
Guinea Highlands - CORRECT ANSWER • West Africa
• Rich in Mineral Resources
• Bauxite - oil from which we get aluminum
Adamawa Highlands - CORRECT ANSWER -created from volcanic activity
-important for a culture, thriving iron age civilization
-origin point for the Bantu Migration
-brought language with them
-Bantu Family of language are dominant
in Eastern and Southern Africa today
Ethiopean Highlands - CORRECT ANSWER Peaks at 16,000 ft higher than atlas and
draken, created by volcanic activity.
-east african most tectonically active
- Pangea is still happening; Fissures and space built up the highlands, Coffee is native to the
highlands
-heard coffee is domesticated here
Mount Kilimanjaro - CORRECT ANSWER a volcano in Tanzania in Africa, also
Africa's highest peak
, - 19,340 ft
- Snow caps are disappearing from global climate change
Great Rift Valley - CORRECT ANSWER area in africa where parts of the plateau's
surface dropped and early human fossils are found
- shaped hydrology and many rift valley lakes
Lakes in grabens - CORRECT ANSWER Hold large volumes of water; very deep
Lake Victoria - CORRECT ANSWER the largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest
fresh water lake in the world
- made by drainage patterns
Nile River - CORRECT ANSWER Blue and White river come together to make this
river; Exotic(unusual interesting out of ordinary) stream
- it flows from a human region to a dry region
Has a worm that can cause cancer or be fatal
Niger River - CORRECT ANSWER is a delta; not area for agriculture; oil deposits,
value in this area (gas as well)
- Triangular shape as it empties out
- wet season flows all the way through and dry season it dries out
- important for ecosystems to come to life
Congo River - CORRECT ANSWER one of the 10 largest rivers
- carries 2nd largest volume of freshwater in whole river
- Drainage basin
- tropical climate helps it get water
- high in hydroelectrical potential
- port city at the start of the river, falls make it so people cant get inland