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Geography 1310 Exam 4 Africa Questions
and Answers (Brian Cooper Texas State
University Geography 1310 Exam 4-
Africa)
plateau surface - --75% of Africa
-complicates access to transportation & trade

- Atlas Mountains - --top out at around 13,000 ft
-pretty dry region
-northern

- Drakensberg Mountains - --volcanic origin
-humid climate
-southern

- Guinea Highlands - --rich in bauxite reserves; aluminum
-west Africa

- Adamawa Highlands - --volcanic origins; laid foundation for Iron Age
-Bantu migrations; brought Bantu language & spread it

- Ethiopian Highlands - --15,000 ft. peaks
-formed as result of cracks in crust & lava getting in surface
-rich volcanic soils
-tropical location
-coffee originated here; domesticated crop

- coffee - -domesticated crop in Ethiopian Highlands

- isolated volcanic peaks of East Africa - --Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya,
Mount Elgon
-east Africa
-global warming
-Great Rift Valley

- Mount Kilimanjaro - --tallest peak in Africa
-has snow on top even though near equator
-east Africa
-disappearance of snow cap supports global warming theory

- Great Rift Valley - --valley created by separation or "rift"
-rift valley lakes

,-shapes hydrology

- The Rift Valley Lakes of East Africa - --Lake Rudolf, Lake Albert, Lake
Edward, Lake Kivu, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi
-all located in grabens
-large volume as result of depth

- Lake Tanganyika - -largest and deepest of the rift valley lakes of east
Africa

- Lake Victoria - --formed as result of drainage patterns
-NOT a rift valley lake
-source of Nile River

- Nile River - --world's longest river
-exotic stream: humid to dry
-lifeblood of ancient Egypt & modern Egypt
-Aswan High Dam; negative effects
-stagnant water causes parasites
-snails carry schistosomiasis (bilharzias); very devastating

- Aswan High Dam - --built on Nile River
-negative effects:
--had to use artificial fertilizers
--salt from (Delta) Mediterranean makes soil infertile

- Niger River - --inland delta: areas are important for plants, animals, &
humans; fertile soil; islands of green area
-oil & natural gas

- oil & natural gas - -2 resources found in Niger River Delta

- Congo River - --2nd largest volume of freshwater on planet
-80 to 200 in. of rain
-rapids & waterfalls
-tremendous hydroelectric potential
-Basin contains 1/11th of world's hydroelectric potential
-Matadi: port city
-complications due to plateau surface

- Zambezi River - --Kariba Dam; created Lake Kariba
-Victoria Falls: massive waterfall over a mile long (The Smoke That Thunders)

- Arabs & Berbers - -2 groups that made up ancient Sahara

- Subsaharan - --black

, -Christianity
-oldest human remains found here

- North Africa - -dominated by Islam

- oral tradition - --passed down by tongue
-problems include accuracy & mortal

- 10 degrees North latitude - -where North Sahara ends

- ancient Ghana - -repeated frequent trade contact with people who used
written tradition (Arabs & Berbers)

- camel caravans - --Arabs & Berbers used them
-primary beast of burden
-brought salt to West Africa Savannah Empire

- Arabs & Berbers - --2 groups of ancient Sahara region
-used camel caravans to bring salt to West Africa Savannah Empire
-brought Islam to the area
-gold traded from Forests people to Savannahs to them

- West Africa - -Europe's primary source of gold

- Africa's ancient states - --oral tradition
-ancient Ghana
-Arabs & Berbers
-camel caravans
-salt
-Islam
-gold
-ivory & ebony
-first slave trade route
-Mali
-Sahara Desert
-10 degrees North latitude

- The Slave Trade & the damage done - --Cross-Saharan Route
-East African Route
-Trans-Atlantic Route
-Triangle Trade
-East Africa, West Africa, mouth of the Congo, Brazil, Caribbean, & colonial
United States

- Cross-Saharan Route - -first slave trade established on African continent

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