Sub Saharan Africa

Most of the world’s top chocolate companies import cocoa from this West African Nation

Ghana

This country was divided in 2011 into northern section (predominately Muslim) and a southern section (predominately Christian)

Sudan

Between 1822 and 1861 some 15,000 African Americans settled in this country that was granted independence by the US in 1847

Liberia

This is the world’s largest desert

The Sahara

The eastern tip of Africa is called ________ and contains the countries of

The Horn of Africa; Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea

The people of this large island only 250 miles off the southeast African coast, consider themselves closely aligned with Indonesia and French remnants of West Africa

Madagascar

This portion of Eastern Africa is known for shifting tectonic plates, a fracture in the Earth’s surface that widens over time, and is an elongated basin bounded by opposed steeply dipping normal faults

Great Rift Valley

South Africa

Somalia

Madagascar

Eswatini

The 4 bodies of water that define the boundaries of Africa

Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean

The highest peak in Africa is

Mt. Kilimanjaro

This term describes climate zones with the same average temperature and same average precipitation

Biomes

This is the country is the 6th largest oil producer in the world, the largest population in sub-Saharan Africa and the highest GDP in Africa

Nigeria

This point of land on the southern tip of Africa is known historically for stormy weather and rough seas

Cape of Good Hope

This island is located in-between Africa and Southern America and is famous for their turtles, Charles Darwin and the British Royal Air Force using is as a staging base for their war against Argentina in 1982

Ascension Island

The African Great Lakes are affiliated with the Great Rift Valley and contain 25% of the planet’s unfrozen surface fresh water. The 3 lakes that makeup this group are

Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi

This geographic, maritime choke point is located off the Horn of Africa and connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden

The Bab-El-Mandeb

The African continent stretches _______ from the North (Mediterranean Sea) to the South (Cape of Good Hope.) In total area the continent is 3 times larger than the US

5,000 miles