1. AFRICA LPS GEOGRAPHY STANDARD 4.1
JEOPARDY!
AFRICA
LPS GEOGRAPHY STANDARD 4.1

2. LPS Standard 4.1
4.1.1 Locate major bodies of water/rivers important to the geography of Africa:
ｧ Atlantic Ocean
ｧ Indian Ocean
ｧ Red Sea
ｧ Mediterranean Sea
ｧ Lake Victoria
ｧ Nile River (White and Blue)
ｧ Congo River
ｧ Suez Canal
4.1.2 Locate major land features of Africa:
ｧ Sahara Desert
ｧ Congo Basin (Rainforest)
ｧ Ethiopian Highlands
ｧ Great Rift Valley
ｧ Serengeti Plain
ｧ Atlas Mountains
ｧ Mt. Kilimanjaro
ｧ Kalahari Desert
ｧ Sahel

3. LPS Standard 4.1 Continued: Selected Countries of Africa
Egypt
Algeria
Libya
Nigeria
Sudan
Kenya
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo)
Chad
Morocco
Tanzania
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Ethiopia
Mozambique
Madagascar
Namibia
Angola
Mali
Senegal
Somalia

4. LPS Standard 4.1 Continued: Selected Cities of Africa
Lagos, Nigeria
Cape Town, South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Cote D’Voire)
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Khartoum, Sudan
Tripoli, Libya
Casablanca, Morocco
Nairobi, Kenya
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Cairo, Egypt

5. 100 200 300 400 500 JEOPARDY! ON THE MAP Countries by Capital
Bodies of Water
Landforms
Did You Know?
100
200
300
400
500
FINAL JEOPARDY

6. Largest island country considered part of Africa.
On the Map - 100
Largest island country considered part of Africa.

7. On the Map answer
What is Madagascar?

8. On the Map - 200
What modern country is where the ancient and fabled city of Timbuktu is located?

9. On the Map answer
What is Mali?

10. On the Map - 300
Name that country.

11. What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
On the Map answer
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

12. On the Map - 400
Name the country.

13. On the Map answer
What is Nigeria?

14. The Serengeti Plain is primarily in what two African Countries.
On the Map - 500
The Serengeti Plain is primarily in what two African Countries.

15. What are Kenya and Tanzania?
On the Map answer
What are Kenya and Tanzania?

16. Countries By Capital - 100
Cairo.

17. Countries By Capital - 100 answer
What is Egypt?

18. Countries By Capital - 200
Khartoum.

19. Countries By Capital - 200 answer
What is the Sudan?

20. Countries By Capital - 300
Johannesburg.

21. Countries By Capital - 300 answer
What is South Africa?

22. Countries By Capital - 400
Nairobi.

23. Countries By Capital - 400 answer
What is Kenya?

24. Countries By Capital - 500
Dar es Salaam.

25. Countries By Capital - 500 answer
What is Tanzania?

26. Bodies of Water - 100
Bordered by two continents and the countries of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Moses crossed me on dry land.

27. Bodies of Water - 100 answer
What is the Red Sea?

28. Ocean on the Eastern Coast of Africa.
Bodies of Water - 200
Ocean on the Eastern Coast of Africa.

29. Bodies of Water - 200 answer
What is the Indian Ocean?

30. Bodies of Water - 300
Largest lake in Africa.

31. Bodies of Water - 300 answer
What is Lake Victoria?

32. My basin covers most of Equatorial Africa and it’s rainforest.
Bodies of Water - 400
My basin covers most of Equatorial Africa and it’s rainforest.

33. Bodies of Water - 400 answer
What is the Congo River?

34. Artificial ‘river’ connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
Bodies of Water - 500
Artificial ‘river’ connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

35. Bodies of Water - 500 answer
What is the Suez Canal?

36. Largest desert in the world.
Landforms - 100
Largest desert in the world.

37. Landforms answer
What is the Sahara?

38. Landforms - 200
Transition area between the desert and land with vegetation. Growing because of continued defoliation and land use.

39. Landforms answer
What is the Sahel?

40. Landforms - 300
Large “scar” in the eastern part of Africa formed by seismic activity thousands of years ago.

41. What is the Great Rift Valley?
Landforms answer
What is the Great Rift Valley?

42. Landforms - 400
Mountain range along the northern coast of Africa reaching a height of 13,000 feet or higher in some places.
Daily Double

43. What are the Atlas Mountains?
Landforms answer
What are the Atlas Mountains?

44. Landforms - 500
Largest desert in sub-Saharan Africa. It covers several countries and thousands of square miles.

45. What is the Kalahari Desert?
Landforms answer
What is the Kalahari Desert?

46. Highest mountain in Africa.
Did You Know? - 100
Highest mountain in Africa.

47. Did You Know? answer
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?

48. It’s source is Lake Victoria and it flows from South to North.
Did You Know? - 200
It’s source is Lake Victoria and it flows from South to North.

49. Did You Know? answer
What is the Nile River?

50. Did You Know? - 300
Africa was once known as the “‘____’ Continent” because many of the earliest European explorers died there as a result of disease, etc.

51. Did You Know? answer
What is “Dark”?

52. Did You Know? - 400
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’.

53. Who is Dr. David Livingstone?
Did You Know? answer
Who is Dr. David Livingstone?

54. Did You Know? - 500
Name one of the two African countries to never have been under European colonial rule.

55. What are Liberia and Ethiopia (acc: Eritrea)?
Did You Know? answer
What are Liberia and Ethiopia (acc: Eritrea)?

56. 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?

57. What is the Cape of Good Hope?
FINAL JEOPARDY! ANSWER
What is the Cape of Good Hope?