geography of east africa the great rift valley and the horn of africa

Geography of East Africa

The Great Rift Valley And The Horn of Africa

Objectives

• What divides Africa into two major areas? Who lives to the north and who lives to the south of this great divider?

• Identify the area people mean when they say the “Horn of Africa.”

• Describe the rift valley of East Africa.

• Identify the Savannah

Where are the major savannah areas of Africa?

Terms and People

Rift valleys form when tectonic plates pull apart.

Savannah is an open grassland with scattered trees.

The Horn of Africa is a sharply pointed peninsula on Africa’s east.

Swahili is an east African language.

Heritage is

Terms and People

Subsistence faming is

A cash crop is

Economy is

Diversify is

The Sahara Desert divides Africa into two ethnic areas.

The Sahara Desert is difficult to cross and has divided people for thousands of years.

North of the Sahara live Arabs and Berbers.

The Sahara Desert

South of the Sahara live many different peoples.

Rift

Val

leys

Sahara Desert

A great crack in the Earth’s plates runs down Africa’s east side.

This crack forms the Great Rift Valley.

The bottom of this valley often has good land.

Most of Africa’s active volcanoes are along the Great Rift Valley.

A rift forms when plates move away from each other.

Poverty continues to plague Sub-Saharan Africa.

Nigeria Ethiopia

The Lakes

South Africa

The Sahara Desert has almost no population.

The Congo Basin has a

low population.

After West Africa, East Africa has the densest population.

Traditional trade in West Africa traveled across the desert to North African Arabs and Berbers.

Traditional trade in East Africa traveled by sea along the coast to Arabia and India.

What landform divides Africa into two major ethnic regions?

The Niger RiverThe Sahara DesertThe rainforest The Nile Delta

Who lives to the north of the Sahara Desert?

Arabs and Berbers

What great religious change began 500 years ago and is still occurring in Africa?

Islam is driving out animism.Animism is driving out Christianity.Christianity is driving out Islam.Animism is driving out Buddhism.

Which religion believes that trees, rocks, and bodies of water have spirits of their own?

Animism

What is the name of the geographical feature in which water flows downward and inward?

A rift valleyA basinA delta A savannah

What is the name of the geographical feature in which the Earth’s plates pull away from each other?

A rift valleyA mountainA volcanoA savannah

What large land feature makes living and travel difficult in central Africa?

The Great Rift ValleyThe Congo BasinThe Nile Delta The Great African Savannah

Around what geographical feature did most of Sub-Saharan Africa’s early civilizations develop ?

The Niger RiverThe Sahara DesertThe Great Rift ValleyThe central rainforests