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WORLD GEOGRAPHY BRIAN COOPER EXAM 4SCORED A+
Atlas Mountains Answer - No crazy division; More erosion; 13,000 feet
Drakensberg Mountains Answer - Eastern edge of great escarpment: edge of
the plateau region, as eroded it built up and created the southern plan africa
Guinea Highlands Answer - • West Africa
• Rich in Mineral Resources
• Bauxite - oil from which we get aluminum
Adamawa Highlands Answer - -created from volcanic activity
-important for a culture, thriving iron age civilization
-origin point for the Bantu Migration
-brought language with them
-Bantu Family of language are dominant
in Eastern and Southern Africa today
Ethiopean Highlands Answer - Peaks at 16,000 ft higher than atlas and draken,
created by volcanic activity.
-east african most tectonically active
- Pangea is still happening; Fissures and space built up the highlands, Coffee is
native to the highlands
-heard coffee is domesticated here
,Mount Kilimanjaro Answer - a volcano in Tanzania in Africa, also Africa's
highest peak
- 19,340 ft
- Snow caps are disappearing from global climate change
Great Rift Valley Answer - area in africa where parts of the plateau's surface
dropped and early human fossils are found
- shaped hydrology and many rift valley lakes
Lakes in grabens Answer - Hold large volumes of water; very deep
Lake Victoria Answer - the largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water
lake in the world
- made by drainage patterns
Nile River Answer - Blue and White river come together to make this river;
Exotic(unusual interesting out of ordinary) stream
- it flows from a human region to a dry region
Has a worm that can cause cancer or be fatal
Niger River Answer - is a delta; not area for agriculture; oil deposits, value in
this area (gas as well)
- Triangular shape as it empties out
- wet season flows all the way through and dry season it dries out
- important for ecosystems to come to life
Congo River Answer - one of the 10 largest rivers
, - carries 2nd largest volume of freshwater in whole river
- Drainage basin
- tropical climate helps it get water
- high in hydroelectrical potential
- port city at the start of the river, falls make it so people cant get inland
Zambezi River Answer - - Hydroelectrical potential area
- victoria falls from david and they stumbled upon these falls and named after
queen
- "smoke that thunders"
Africa's Ancient States Answer - - oral tradition; written tradition; ancient
Ghana; Arabs; Berbers; camel caravans; salt; Islam gold; ivory; ebony; slaves
- Mali; Sahara Desert; 10 degrees North latitude
The Slave Trade and the Damage Done Answer - - Cross-Saharan Route - was
first slave trade route on African continent; forest peoples traded to Arabs &
Berbers
- 60 million could have died
- East African Route - second to start; last to shut down in the late 1800s, early
1900s
- Trans-Atlantic Route - largest slave trade route; established by Europeans in
1400s; Portuguese set up that model, taking them to Brazil
- Triangle Trade - North of Gambia to South of Congo River
- damage estimates - *for every slave that made it, 5 died*; high estimate 60
million taken; most studies test 30-35 million; last over 3 centuries
- Economic changes in Europe to end slave trade
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