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AFRICA MAP WORKSHEETS Name:____________________ Northern Region (ORANGE) Algeria Egypt Libya Morocco Tunisia Western Region (GREEN) Chad Gambia Ghana Guinea Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Sierra Leone Central Africa (BLUE) Cent. African Repub. Congo Uganda Rwanda East Africa (RED) Ethiopia Kenya Somalia Sudan Tanzania South Africa (PURPLE) Angola Madagascar Mozambique South Africa Zimbabwe Atlantic Ocean Cape of Good Hope Congo Basin Congo River Indian Ocean Lake Chad Lake Tanganyika Lake Victoria Mediterranean Sea Niger River Nile River Red Sea Atlas Mountains Great Rift Valley Kalahari Desert Mt. Kilimanjaro Sahara Strait of Gibraltar Label: Oceans, Rivers, Cape’s, Lakes, and Mountains. 2 Overview of Africa Location Turn to the map on page RA 18-19 of the textbook. 1. Which ocean borders Africa on the west? On the east? _____________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which line of latitude runs through the center of Africa? ___________________________________ 3. Which part of Africa has the higher elevations: west and central, or south and east? ______________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Place Study the climographs of Kano, Nigeria, and Kimberley, South Africa, on page 506. 4. On page 524, who Nelson Mandela was? ____________________________ What is Apartheid? ___________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. In which month does Country has the greatest rainfall?____________________________________ Human-Environment Interaction 6. Study the material on page 111 of your Geography Book. Which endangered species roams a large, crescent-shaped area from West Africa to southern Africa? _________________________________________________________________________________ Movement 7. Study the land & population maps on page 410-414 of the book. Apart from the difficulty of river transportation, why did early European colonists in southern Africa stay near the coast? _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Regions Turn to the map of Africa on page 427 of the book. 8. What is the dominant climate region in North Africa? _____________________________________ 9. Name one climate region that is found only to the south of 20°S latitude. _________________________________________________________________________________ 3 4 Tunisia Algeria Egypt Libya Western Sahara Morocco Nile River Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean Sea Sahara Desert Atlas Mountains Algiers, Algeria Tripoli, Libya Tunis, Tunisia Casablanca, Morocco Alexandria, Egypt Northern Africa Location Turn to the maps on page RA- 18-19. 1. Which European country is directly north of Morocco? _________________________________ 2. Which European country is closest to Tunisia? ________________________________________ 3. The Tropic of Cancer passes through every North African country except two. Name them. ____ ______________________________________________________________________________ Place Study the map of Egypt on page 404-450 of the textbook. 4. Which three bodies of water border or run into the Sinai Peninsula? _______________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 5. The Suez Canal separates what two bodies of land? ____________________________________ Human-Environment Interaction 6. Study the resource map on page 412 of the textbook. What are Egypt’s three leading minerals? ______________________________________________________________________________ Movement 7. Study the map on page 404 of the textbook. Imagine a caravan driver bringing oranges from fields along the coast near Casablanca, Morocco, to the markets in Tangier. What cities would the driver pass through to get to Tangier? Give the political significance of one of those cities. ______________________________________________________________________________ Regions 8. Turn to the maps on page RA 18-19 of the Nystrom atlas. Describe the location of the Sahara. What is its average rainfall? In what direction has it been growing? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 5 Mauritania Senegal Guinea Bissau Mali Niger Chad Guinea Sierra Leone Liberia Cote D’ivoire Lake Tanganyika Atlantic Ocean Congo River Gulf of Guinea Lake Chad Niger River Burkina Faso Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Ghana Dakar, Senegal Togo Kinshasa, Dem. Republic of the Congo Venin Lagos, Nigeria Nigeria Dakar, Senegal Cameroon Central African Republic Gabon Equatorial Guinea Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo 6 West and Central Africa Location Study the maps on pages RA-18 or Atlas of the textbook. 1. Which countries are divided by the Equator? ______________________________________________________________________________ 2. Name three lakes that border the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the east. ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. By looking at the globe for the slave trade, what is the estimated amount of slaves exported from Africa? How many estimated were sold in the US? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Place Turn to the maps on pages RA-18-19 of the textbook. 4. What major river runs through the western half of the region? ____________________________ 5. Name three West African countries that the Prime Meridian runs through. __________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Human-Environment Interaction 6. Study the graph of population growth on page 498. How does the Nigerian birthrate compare with the world average? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Movement Turn to the maps on page RA-18-19. 7. To which area were more enslaved Africans brought: North America or the Caribbean region? ______________________________________________________________________________ 8. Name six present-day West African nations from which enslaved Africans were taken. ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Regions Study the population density map on page 498-520 & of the textbook. (Use both pages) 9. Which two cities in West and Central Africa have populations of over 100 Per sq. km? ______________________________________________________________________________ 10. Which West and Central African nations have large uninhabited areas? ______________________________________________________________________________ 7 Angola Botswana Burundi Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mozambique Namibia Rwanda Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Gulf of Aden Indian Ocean Kalahari Desert Lake Nyasa Lake Victoria Mt. Kilimanjaro Namib Desert Orange River Red Sea Zambezi River Johannesburg, South Africa Cape Town, South Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 8 East and Southern Africa Location Study the map of South Africa on page 509. 1. In which of South Africa’s three capital cities do the legislators meet? ______________________________________________________________________________ 2. What is the distance in miles between Durban on the Indian Ocean and Johannesburg in the Transvaal? ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. Name the southernmost cape on the African continent. ______________________________________________________________________________ Place Study the map on page 506 of the textbook. 4. What large island lies off the east coast of Africa? ______________________________________________________________________________ 5. What body of water separates Madagascar from the mainland? ______________________________________________________________________________ 6. How high is Africa’s highest mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro? ______________________________________________________________________________ Human-Environment Interaction Turn to the map on page 510-520 of the book. 7. Find the Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania. This is where scientists found remains and tools of some of the earliest people on Earth. Olduvai Gorge is part of what ancient geological formation? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 8. Tanzania was formed by the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. What is Zanzibar? Where is it? ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Movement 9. Study the map on page 507 of the Nystrom atlas. What country must one cross traveling north from Ethiopia to the Red Sea? ______________________________________________________________________________ Regions 10. Study the economic activity map on page 400 or 500 of the textbook. Which region is richer in natural resources: Southern Africa or East Africa? ______________________________________________________________________________ 9
