1. AFRICA – Lesson 1
GEOGRAPHY & PEOPLES

2. OBJECTIVES Identify key landforms and resources.
Locate nations and geographic features on a map of Africa.
Explain how geographic features have influenced where people live and contributed to the cultural diversity of the continent.

3. Warm up
List the features you associate with Africa’s geography & climate.

4. Geography 2nd largest – 3x’s US Open coasts, Hostile interior
5 geographic regions
Northern Africa
Western Africa
Eastern Africa
Central Africa
Southern Africa

5. Landforms Plateau Mountains: Great Rift Valley Rivers: Atlas in NW
Drakensberg in SE
Mt. Kilimanjaro – Tanzania
Great Rift Valley
Break in Earth’s crust
Rivers:
Nile Zambezi
Congo Niger

6. Climate Rainfall decreases w/distance from equator 4 Major Zones
80% in tropics
4 Major Zones
Rainforests
Savanna/Grasslands
Deserts
N.Africa – Sahara
Kalahari & Namib
Mediterranean Climate

7. Natural & economic resources
Subsistence farming & nomadic herding
Overgrazing & drought = desertification
Export rubber, coffee, cocoa, cotton
Minerals – oil/petroleum, gold, diamonds, copper, uranium, coltan
Largely underdeveloped
Foreign co’s invest, take $
Niger River Delta & Dutch Shell (Vice)
Click map for CNN interactive !

8. Human diversity 763 million ppl & growing
Urbanization
Many ethnic groups w/unique languages
Arab, Ashanti, Bantu, Swahili groups
Three major religions:
Christianity, Islam, Traditional Beliefs

9. Climate & Health Disease-carrying insects Unclean water Hunger
Malaria
Tsetse fly (sleeping sickness)
River blindness
Unclean water
Parasites
Diarrheal diseases
Hunger
Drought = no crops
Lack protein
Lowered Life Expectancy
Negative Economic Impact

10. Blast from the past?

11. Activity 1 Map : Label all nations Color geographic regions
Make key on map

12. closure
How do climate & environment impact Africans way of life?