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Jeopardy East Africa

Rift ValleyCountries Water Maps People and Cultures

The Great Rift Valley runs along which side of Africa, East or West?

East

The rift valley has been created by the movement of Earth plates toward or away from each other?

Away

Many of these fill with water along the rift valley as the Earth separates.

Lakes

This mountain, Africa’s tallest, was created from volcanic activity along the rift valley.

Mount Kilimanjaro

These birds often live in conditions that other species cannot.

Flamingos

This East African country is home to Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest.

Tanzania

One of the world’s oldest Christian traditions exists in this East African country.

Ethiopia

This East African country is the ancestral home to Barack Obama’s family.

Kenya

This country is Africa’s largest. The capital, Khartoum, lies at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile Rivers.

Sudan

The island of Socotra belongs to Yemen though it lies closer to this East African country.

Somalia

This ocean borders Africa to the East.

Indian Ocean

These long bodies of water are used by ships for transportation between many East African countries.

Lakes

The longest fresh water lake in the world is this lake which forms the border between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Lake Tanganyika

This lake is Africa’s largest and the source of water for the Nile River.

Lake Victoria

Often used in aquariums, these species of fish are native to the Rift Valley lakes of East Africa.

Cichlids

This country forms the “Horn of Africa.”

Somalia

Sudan

Kenya

A former British colony, this country gets its name from the Buganda Kingdom that ruled the region in the 14 th century.

Uganda

This country broke from Ethiopia and declared its independence in 1993.

Eritrea

Many of the world’s great athletes in this sport have come from East Africa.

Track or running.

Many tourists to East Africa travel to view scenes like this on one of these, a journey or expedition for hunting or exploration.

Safari

Many scientists believe that the earliest of these animals evolved in the Rift Valley of Africa at sites like Olduvai Gorge in modern day Tanzania and Aramis, Ethiopia.

Humans

Members of this traditional nomadic ethnic group of Kenya and Tanzania are among the most famous in Africa

Maasai

Whether written in the Arabic or Roman alphabet, this language is the most commonly spoken in East Africa.

Swahili