Transcript Lake Victoria`s Ecological Health Problem

Locate and label all of the countries of Africa and draw
and label the following physiographic features:
Nile River
Serengeti
Atlas Mts
Sahara Desert
Kalahari Desert
Congo River
Niger River
Great Rift Valley
Ethiopian Highlands
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Congo Basin
Madagascar
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Your map must use color and include a key (legend)
Congo River
•It is the second longest
river in Africa at 2920 miles
(the Nile is the longest).
•It is the ninth longest river
in the world.
•The Congo River is the
deepest river in the world. It
reaches depths of over 750
feet
•The Congo River is so
powerful that if has the
potential to supply all of
sub-Saharan Africa's
electricity needs.
What lives in the Congo River?
Niger River
• The Niger is the thirdlongest river in Africa, at
2600 miles
• The Niger has an unusual
route
• It starts approximately 150 miles
from the Atlantic
• Instead of flowing to the nearby
Atlantic Ocean it instead heads
inland, away from the sea into
the Sahara Desert.
• It turns sharply near the city of
Timbuktu and heads to the Gulf
of Guinea.
• Unlike the Nile, the Niger is
very clear. This is because its
source contains very little
silt
Nile River
• It is the longest river in the world.
It is approximately 4,160 miles
• The Nile river flows from the high
mountains in the middle regions
of Africa north to the Nile delta.
• The Nile flows through 10
countries: Egypt, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Tanzanian,
Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi,
Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan,
and Kenya.
• Ancient Egyptian civilization grew
from the Nile River
• The Aswan High Dam was built to
control the annual flooding of the
Nile; it also provides tremendous
hydroelectric power
Lake Victoria
• It is Africa's largest lake and
has a surface area of 26,600
square miles
• It is the largest tropical lake in
the world.
• It is the world's second largest
freshwater lake measured by
surface area. The only larger
freshwater lake is Lake
Superior in North America.
• Approximately 80 percent of
the lakes water comes from
rain. The other 20 percent
comes from small streams
flowing into the lake.
Atlas Mountains
• The mountain range stretches
approximately 1,600 miles
(2,500 kilometers) across
Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
• The windward side of the mts
face the Mediterranean and
Atlantic ; the leeward faces the
Sahara Desert.
• Mineral deposits found in this
mountain range include gold,
silver, zinc, lead, and iron.
• Many indigenous species are
now extinct including: North
African Elephant and the
Barbary Lion
• One of the oldest centers of
human civilization in the world.
• Known as the "African Alps,"
contain roughly 80 percent of
the highest mountains in Africa
• Much of the natural soil in the
Ethiopian Highlands region has
been destroyed due to the
farming of coffee and teff, (a
grain)
• Droughts and famines have
plagued the area in recent
times, making Ethiopia one of
the focal points for world
starvation.
Ethiopian Highlands
• The Rift Valley, also known as the
Great Rift Valley or Eastern Rift Valley,
• Geological feature that runs south
from Jordan in south west Asia,
through East Africa and down to
Mozambique in southern Africa.
• In all the Rift Valley is 6,400 km (4,000
miles) long and is 64 km (35 miles)
wide on average.
• It is 30 million years old and exhibits
extensive volcanism, having produced
Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya.
Sahara Desert
sahara
• The Sahara is the world’s largest hot
desert and one of the harshest
environments on the planet.
• It is third largest desert overall after
Antarctica and the Arctic, which are
cold deserts.
• At 3.6 million square miles (9.4
million square kilometers), the
Sahara, which is Arabic for "The
Great Desert," engulfs most of North
Africa.
• The desert covers large sections of
Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali,
Mauritania, Morocco, Niger,
Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.