Five Themes of Geography: Africa Location Place Human/Environment Interaction Movement Region Mr. S.H. Stuart

Location—How do I get there? Exact location: Cape Town, SA 33°55′S latitude, 18°25′E longitude Cairo, Egypt 30°03′N latitude, 31°22′E longitude Mombasa, Kenya 4°03′S latitude, 39°40′E longitude

Location—How do I get there? Exact location Relative location Cairo is in North Africa Cape Town is in South Africa Mombasa, Kenya is in East Africa View from Cape Town, SA

Place— What’s it like to live there? Physical Features Rivers– Nile, Niger, Zambezi, Congo, Limpopo Deserts– Sahara, Libyan, Namib, Kalahari Lakes– Victoria, Chad, Malawi, Tanganyika Mountains– Atlas, Drakensberg Grasslands– Masai Mara, Serengeti, veldt, savanna

Place— What’s it like to live there? Human Features Tribal regions– Kikuyu in Kenya, Tuareg in N. Mali, Zulu in S. Africa Urban or rural– Nairobi, Kenya is a large urban area….people are pulled to it from the surrounding rural areas. Religion– In addition to Islam and Christianity, many traditional religions are still practiced.

Human/Environment Interaction— How do people relate to the land? Adapt-- People do not change the land. Modify– People change the land. Depend– People depend on the land.

Human/Environment Interaction— How do people relate to the land? Adapt Clothing and animals help the Tuareg adapt to life in the deep desert. Boats help people to adapt to life along the Nile

Human/Environment Interaction— How do people relate to the land? Modify Slash and burn clears the land for farming in the Congo. Dams provide hydroelectricity. South Africans mine for gold, diamonds and other minerals.

Human/Environment Interaction— How do people relate to the land Depend Africans depend on the land for FOOD, CLOTHING, SHELTER, TRANSPORTATION…. for everything!

Movement— How do people, goods and ideas move in & out? People– What people move in and out of this region? By what means of transportation? Goods– What goods move in and out of this region? Ideas– What ideas move? By what means of communication?

Region— Geographers invent regions Mediterranean Africa– It looks and feels like Spain and Italy….all the countries along the Mediterranean Sea, AND South Africa. The Sahara– Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, northern Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan. Grasslands– Senegal, southern Mali, southern Niger, Somalia, Kenya

Region— Geographers invent regions Highlands– The mountainous countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique Rainforest– The seacoast from Senegal to Angola. The countries of Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo Great Lakes– Border Africa’s Rift Valley lakes– Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique

AFRICA: The Five Themes of Geography Created by Mr. S.H. Stuart