1. Physical Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa

3. Serengeti Plain  Tropical Grassland  Northern Tanzania  It’s dry climate and hard soil prevent the growth of trees and many crops, but they are perfect for growing grass  It is the place where the largest numbers of land mammals still make annual migrations

6. Mountains  Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest mountain  Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro are both volcanoes  Volcanic activity also produced the Ethiopian Highlands and Mount Cameroon in West Africa  Volcanic rock covers the Great Escarpment in Southern Africa  An escarpment is a steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on the top

9. Warm-up  Use the map on pg 411.  Answer the applying map skills questions at the bottom of pg. 411.  Write the question and you answers in complete sentences.

10. Rift Valleys  East Africa  As continental plates pulled apart over millions of years, huge cracks appeared in the earth  The land then sunk to form long, thin valleys called rift valleys  Stretch over 4,000 miles

12. Great Lakes in Africa  Cluster of lakes formed at the bottoms of some of the rift valleys  Lake Tanganyika is the longest freshwater lake in the world  Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake and the world’s second largest lake

15. Assignment  Finish East Africa Vocabulary