JEOPARDY! AFRICA LPS GEOGRAPHY STANDARD 4
ON THE MAP Countries by Capital Bodies of WaterLandformsDid You Know? JEOPARDY! FINAL JEOPARDY
On the Map Largest island country considered part of Africa.
On the Map answer What is Madagascar?
On the Map What modern country is where the ancient and fabled city of Timbuktu is located?
On the Map answer What is Mali?
On the Map Name that country.
On the Map answer What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
On the Map Name the country.
On the Map answer What is Nigeria?
On the Map The Serengeti Plain is primarily in what two African Countries.
On the Map answer What are Kenya and Tanzania?
Countries By Capital Cairo.
Countries By Capital answer What is Egypt?
Countries By Capital Khartoum.
Countries By Capital answer What is the Sudan?
Countries By Capital Johannesburg.
Countries By Capital answer What is South Africa?
Countries By Capital Nairobi.
Countries By Capital answer What is Kenya?
Countries By Capital Dar es Salaam.
Countries By Capital answer What is Tanzania?
Bodies of Water Bordred by two continents and the countries of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Moses crossed me on dry land.
Bodies of Water answer What is the Red Sea?
Bodies of Water Ocean on the Eastern Coast of Africa.
Bodies of Water answer What is the Indian Ocean?
Bodies of Water Largest lake in Africa.
Bodies of Water answer What is Lake Victoria?
Bodies of Water My basin covers most of Equatorial Africa and it’s rainforest.
Bodies of Water answer What is the Congo River?
Bodies of Water Artificial ‘river’ connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
Bodies of Water answer What is the Suez Canal?
Landforms Largest desert in the world.
Landforms answer What is the Sahara?
Landforms Transition area between the desert and land with vegetation. Growing because of continued defoliation and land use.
Landforms answer What is the Sahel?
Landforms Large “scar” in the eastern part of Africa formed by seismic activity thousands of years ago.
Landforms answer What is the Great Rift Valley?
Landforms Mountain range along the northern coast of Africa reaching a height of 13,000 feet or higher in some places.
Landforms answer What are the Atlas Mountains?
Landforms Largest desert in sub- Saharan Africa. It covers several countries and thousands of square miles.
Landforms answer What is the Kalahari Desert?
Did You Know? Highest mountain in Africa.
Did You Know? answer What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
Did You Know? It’s source is Lake Victoria and it flows from North to South.
Did You Know? answer What is the Nile River?
Did You Know? Africa was once known as the “‘____’ Continent” because many of the earliest European explorers died there as a result of disease, etc.
Did You Know? answer What is “Dark”?
Did You Know? Famous Doctor who was the first European to see Victoria Falls which the natives called “smoke that thunders” Explorer Henry Stanley found him ‘we presume’.
Did You Know? answer Who is Dr. David Livingstone?
Did You Know? Name one of the two African countries to never have been under European colonial rule.
Did You Know? answer What are Liberia and Ethiopia (acc: Eritrea)?
FINAL JEOPARDY! When sailors attempted to go around Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries, they were glad when they reached a particular point on the African Continent. Because of this, they gave the place what fitting name?
FINAL JEOPARDY! ANSWER What is the Cape of Good Hope?