Welcome

• Please find your name and sit with your group.

• When class starts, please decide who will be your group leader for the day.– The group leader will be the only person to

bring answers to me.• Pick someone to get a textbook for

everyone in the group.

Unscrambled Landforms

• You job as a group is to unscramble to letters on the orange strips of paper.

• You will then write the unscrambled term on a piece of paper and place the paper under the appropriate grouping on the floor.

• The first group finished wins the leg of the contest.

Thirty Questions

• You job as a group is to answer all thirty questions in your envelope.

• The group leader may bring the answers up to me to check them for correctness.

• The first group finished wins the leg of the contest.

Making a Map

• Your job as a group is to place the cut outs into a map of Africa.

• You will do this on the floor.• The first group finished wins the leg of the

contest.

Africa

Physical Geography

Plateaus

• Africa is a gigantic plateau. One plateau follows another as the land rises from the west to east in a series of steps.

• Separating the plateaus are steep cliffs called escarpments.

• Rivers that spill over the escarpments in waterfalls are known as cataracts.

Plateaus

Escarpments

Cataracts

Quiz

• Africa is a gigantic __________.A. IslandB. Plateau C. DesertD. Cataracts

Quiz

• Separating the plateaus are steep cliffs called ______________.

A. EscarpmentsB. PlateausC. CataractsD. Deserts

Mountains

• Despite the high elevations, Africa possesses few mountains.– Drakensburg Mtns.– Ruwenzori Mtns.

• Mount Kilimanjara is Africa’s highest mountain.

Mount Kilimanjaro

Great Rift Valley

• One of the world’s natural wonders, the valley stretches from the Jordan River in Southwest Asia to the Zambezi River in Mozambique.

• Y-shaped trench 3500 miles long with escarpments more than a mile high.

• Cuts in the Great Rift Valley form the continent’s largest lakes.

Great Rift Valley

The Great Rift Valley is ___________ miles long.

A. 30000B. 3500C. 300D. 30

Quiz

Water Systems: Lakes

• Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world and the source of the White Nile. It is also named after the British Queen, Victoria.

• Tanganyika is the world’s longest freshwater lake at 420 miles long.

• Lake Malawi is the 3rd greatest lake in Africa and is known for it’s many types of fish.

Lake Victoria: Satellite Image

Lake Victoria

Lake Tanganyika: Satellite Image

Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika

Lake Victoria is named after ____________.A. Queen of EthiopiaB. Queen of EnglandC. Queen of FranceD. Queen of Africa

Quiz

_____________ is the longest fresh water lake in the world.

A. VictoriaB. ErieC. LanierD. Tanganyika

Quiz

Water Systems: Rivers/Falls

• There are four major rivers in Africa: Nile, Zaire, Niger, and Zambezi.

• Victoria Falls, named after a British Queen, is more than twice the height of Niagara Falls.

Victoria Falls

Reinforcement Book Assignment

• Page 428:– Reviewing Places & Terms

• 1-20– Main Ideas

• 1-10

You do not need to write out the questions.