1. The African landscape:

3. North Africa:

4. North Africa: The Nile (union of Blue and White Nile) Silt deposits
Physical Features:
The Nile (union of Blue and White Nile)
Silt deposits
Aswan High Dam
The Sinai Peninsula (E.of Nile)
Suez Canal between Sinai and Egypt - connects Red Sea to Med.
The Sahara: world’s largest desert
Sand dunes and dry streambeds
Atlas Mountains N.west side of Sahara (13,600 ft)

5. Oil & gas (Libya, Algeria & Egypt) Moroccan mines iron ore & minerals
North Africa
Climate:
Resources:
Oil & gas (Libya, Algeria & Egypt)
Moroccan mines iron ore & minerals
Sahara coal, oil, natural gas
3 Main Climates:
Desert (136 deg. In Libya)
Mediterranean (mild)
Steppe (between Sahara and coast)

6. West Africa:

7. West Africa: Coastal plan has lots of cities
Physical Features:
Climate & Vegetation
Plains & Highlands
Coastal plan has lots of cities
Interior plain people farm
Plateaus & cliffs in SW
Tibesti Mountains
The Niger River = most impt. Flows into interior of region bringing life giving water to W. Africa
Transportation and divides into channels swamps and lakes
4 Different Climates:
Desert- Sahara zone
Sahel- strip of land that divides desert from wetter areas
2) Steppe – varied rainfall
3) Tropical Savanna
4) Humid Tropical
Resourcv

8. East Africa:

9. East Africa: Physical Features
The Rift Valleys- land arches and splits- volcanoes & thick rock
The Great Rift Valley – E & W up to 6,000 ft. high
Mt. Kilimanjaro- highest mtn, in Africa 19,340 ft. High
Ethiopian Highlands: rugged with deep River Valleys

10. Mt. Kilimanjaro, Kenya

11. The Ethiopian Highlands

12. East Africa
Climate & Vegetation:
Rivers & Lakes
Some areas cooler climate further from Equator drier and suffer from drought
Nth of Eqtor -plateaus, mtns, and highland climate, forests
South of Eqtor: Tropical Savanna
Rift floor dry with grasslands & shrub
Areas of East highlands of I.O. are at a lower elevation – desert and steppe climates
Nile begins in E Africa flows N.
Lake Victoria
Chain of lakes in W. rift valleys
Some lakes near east rift so hot cannot even swim

13. Central Africa:

14. Central Africa: Central Africa- low latitude along Equator
Climates, Vegetation & Animals
Physical Features:
Central Africa- low latitude along Equator
Humid tropical climate
Nth and Sth of Congo savanna climate
Large dense tropical forest – few light
Gorillas, elephants wild boar & okapis, birds,, monkeys, bats, snakes, and insects
Endangered species (hunting, logging, and farming)
Landforms:
Congo Basin
Lake Nyasa (Malawi) & Tanganyika
Rivers: Congo River- fed by 100s of smaller ones
Swampy basin
Zambezi River flows E. toward I.O. Victoria Falls
Rapids and waterfalls – make it difficult for ships

15. Victoria Falls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzN1sMcLWEo

16. Central Africa: Resources:
Good farming- most were subsistence farmers- now selling their crops
Periodic Markets- an open air-market set up 1-2 times a week
Forests provide timber
Rivers- travel & trade
Dams-hydroelectricity
Oil, Nat. gas, coal
Minerals- Copper, Uranium, tin, Zinc,
Diamonds, gold and cobalt

17. South Africa:

18. South Africa: Physical Features: Climate & Vegetation:
Plateaus and Mtns: most of South Africa lies on large plateau (4,000 ft. above sea level)
Escarpment: Steep face at edge of plateau
SE Africa Drakensburg “Dragon Mtns.” 11,425 ft.
The Okavango River – from Angola swampy inland delta
Orange River flows to Atlantic
Limpopo River flows into IO waterfalls
Kalahari desert- most of Botswana
Wettest = Madagascar (winds from Indian Ocean bring moisture)
Savanna & deserts
Veld- open grassland areas
Driest = Namib desert on Atlantic coast ½ and in. of rain a yr.
Tropical forests – Madagascar- lemurs & endangered species

19. South Africa: Resources: Madagascar- forests timber
Rivers hydroelectricity
Farming
Minerals (gold)
S. Afr., Botswana, & Namibia diamonds
Coal, Platinum, rubber, iron

20. Source
Google Images
HOLT World Cultures