The document summarizes major landforms in Africa, including mountain ranges like the Drakensberg and Ethiopian Highlands, deserts such as the Sahara and Kalahari, rivers like the Niger and Congo, and lakes including Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria. It provides details on the locations and features of these various African landforms.

1. Africa’s Landforms

2. Major Mountain Ranges Drakensberg Ethiopian Highlands Ruwenzori

3. Drakensberg Located in the eastern part of South Africa; forms northeastern border of Lesotho with South Africa. Worksheet: Mountains in South Africa and Lesotho.

4. Drakensberg Mountains Afrikaans for “Dragons Mountain”

5. Drakensberg Offers challenging mountaineering; some of its minor peaks have never been summitted.

6. Drakensberg This is a famous rock formation called “The Amphitheatre”

7. Ruwenzori Mountains Divide Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

8. Ruwenzori “ Mountains in the Mist” Its snow-covered peaks are only visible a few days a year because the massive amounts of rainfall make it mist-and-cloud covered most of the time

9. Ruwenzori Also spelled Rwenzori

10. Ruwenzori Famous for vegetation—ranging from rain forests to alpine meadows to snow

11. Ethiopian Highlands

12. Ethiopian Highlands Located in Eritrea and Somalia, as well as Ethiopia

13. Ethiopian Highlands Formed as magma uplifted ancient rocks

14. Ethiopian Highlands Divided by the “Great Rift Valley”

15. Major Deserts Sahara Namib Kalahari

16. Sahara Desert

17. Sahara Desert Located in Northern Africa

18. Sahara Desert Largest hot Desert in the World

19. Sahara Desert Its name is an English rendition of the Arabic word for “desert”

20. Sahara Desert It divides the continent of Africa into North and Sub-Saharan Africa

21. Namib Desert

22. Namib Desert Located along the Atlantic coast of Namibia

23. Namib Desert Oldest Desert in the World (over 80 million years)

24. Namib Desert Largely unpopulated and inaccessible

25. Namib Desert It is almost completely barren

26. Kalahari Desert

27. Kalahari Desert Located in eastern Namibia, Botswana, and part of South Africa.

28. Kalahari Desert Meerkats live here

29. Kalahari Desert Bushmen live here!

30. Kalahari Desert

31. Major Rivers Niger Zambezi Nile congo

32. Niger River

33. Niger River Main artery in western Africa that originates in Guinea.

34. Niger River Third longest river in Africa—2500 miles long

35. Zambezi River

36. Zambezi River Located in south-central Africa and meets the ocean in a delta.

37. Zambezi River Fourth longest river in Africa

38. Zambezi River Just below Victoria Falls—Zambia is on the left, Zimbabwe is on the right.

39. Zambezi River Evening Chat. 

40. Nile River

41. Nile River The Nile and its tributaries flow though nine countries. The White Nile flows though Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt. The Blue Nile starts in Ethiopia. Zaire, Kenya, Tanzanian, Rwanda, and Burundi all have tributaries, which flow into the Nile or into lake Victoria. It flows south to north—probably opposite than what you thought.

42. Nile River Its name comes from the Greek word “Nelios” meaning River Valley

43. Nile River It is the world’s longest river (4,187 miles)

44. Nile River

45. Congo River

46. Congo River Begins on the border of DR Congo & Zambia, swings up almost to Central African Republic and then down the border of DR Congo and Republic of Congo and out to the Atlantic Ocean.

47. Congo River Second longest river in Africa (2,720 miles)

48. Congo River It flows through the second largest rain forest in the world

49. Congo River Congo Republic and DR Congo take their names from this river

50. Valleys, Plains, Capes, Steppes Great Rift Valley Serengeti Plain Cape of Good Hope Sahel

51. Great Rift Valley Natural wonder in the southeastern part of Africa

52. Great Rift Valley Runs from Syria (in the Middle East) to Mozambique (in Africa)

53. Serengeti Plain One of the world’s largest savanna plains

54. Serengeti Plain

55. Cape of Good Hope The southern tip of Africa Discovered by Vasco de Gama. Western European explorers had been searching for the tip of Africa. De Gama was blown around the cape during a storm and was so excited about finally finding the end of Africa, knowing it would open Europe for trade with Asia, that he named it the “Cape of Good Hope.”

56. Cape of Good Hope

57. Sahal The northern steppe of Africa

58. Sahel

59. Lakes Lake Tanganyika Lake Victoria

60. Lake Tanganyika One of the deepest and longest freshwater lakes in the world; located in East Africa

61. Lake Tanganyika

62. Lake Victoria Largest Lake in Africa

63. Lake Victoria

64. Biggest and Best Tallest Mountain Largest Lake Biggest Waterfall Largest Desert Oldest Desert

65. Tallest Mountain--Kilimanjaro World’s tallest free-standing mountain 15,000 feet In NorthEast Tanzania

66. Biggest Lake—Lake Victoria Largest fresh water lake in the world (surface area) 7 th largest fresh water lake in world by volume Has more than 3000 islands

67. Lake Victoria Satellite View

68. Biggest Waterfall—Victoria Falls. One of the 7 wonders of the World Remarkable because of the narrow slot-like canyon which the water falls into—so the falls can be viewed face-on Vastly larger than Niagara Falls—19 million cubic feet of water falling each minute vs. six million cubic feet of water at Niagara Only rivaled by Iguazo Falls (So. America) Single largest sheet of falling water in the world—328 feet tall, one mile wide The falling water generates spray and mist that rise to a height of over 1300 feet

69. Victoria Falls

70. Victoria Falls

71. Victoria Falls

72. Victoria Falls Spray The Spray can be seen up to 30 miles away

73. Largest Desert ??? You should know this one Oldest Desert You Should Know this one too.

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