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Five Themes of
Geography: Africa
•Location
•Place
•Human/Environment Interaction
•Movement
•Region
–Mr. S.H. Stuart
Location—How do I get
there?
•Exact location:
–Cape Town, SA
33°55′S latitude, 18°25′E longitude
–Cairo, Egypt
30°03′N latitude, 31°22′E longitude
–Mombasa, Kenya
4°03′S latitude, 39°40′E longitude
Location—How do I get
there?
•Exact location
•Relative location
–Cairo is in North Africa
–Cape Town is in South Africa
–Mombasa, Kenya is in East Africa
View from
Cape Town, SA
Place— What’s it like to live
there?
•Physical Features
–Rivers– Nile, Niger, Zambezi, Congo,
Limpopo
–Deserts– Sahara, Libyan, Namib,
Kalahari
–Lakes– Victoria, Chad, Malawi,
Tanganyika
–Mountains– Atlas, Drakensberg
–Grasslands– Masai Mara,
Serengeti, veldt, savanna
Place— What’s it like to live
there?
•Human Features
–Tribal regions– Kikuyu in Kenya,
Tuareg in N. Mali, Zulu in S. Africa
–Urban or rural– Nairobi, Kenya is a
large urban area….people are pulled to
it from the surrounding rural areas.
–Religion– In addition to Islam and
Christianity, many traditional religions
are still practiced.
Human/Environment
Interaction— How do people
relate to the land?
•Adapt-- People do not
change the land.
•Modify– People change the
land.
•Depend– People depend on
the land.
Human/Environment
Interaction— How do people
relate to the land?
•Adapt
–Clothing and animals help
the Tuareg adapt to life in
the deep desert.
–Boats help people to adapt
to life along the Nile
Human/Environment
Interaction— How do people
relate to the land?
•Modify
–Slash and burn clears the
land for farming in the
Congo.
–Dams provide hydroelectricity.
–South Africans mine for gold,
diamonds and other minerals.
Human/Environment
Interaction— How do people
relate to the land
•Depend
–Africans depend on
the land for FOOD,
CLOTHING, SHELTER,
TRANSPORTATION….
for everything!
Movement— How do
people, goods and ideas move
in & out?
•People– What people move in and
out of this region? By what means of
transportation?
•Goods– What goods move in and
out of this region?
•Ideas– What ideas move? By
what means of communication?
Region— Geographers
invent regions
•Mediterranean Africa– It looks and feels
like Spain and Italy….all the countries along the
Mediterranean Sea, AND South Africa.
•The Sahara– Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia,
Libya, Egypt, northern Mali, Niger, Chad,
Sudan.
•Grasslands– Senegal, southern
Mali, southern Niger, Somalia,
Kenya
Region— Geographers
invent regions
•Highlands– The mountainous countries:
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique
•Rainforest– The seacoast from Senegal to
Angola. The countries of Cameroon, Gabon, Congo,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
•Great Lakes– Border Africa’s Rift Valley lakes–
Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi,
Zambia, Mozambique
AFRICA: The Five
Themes of Geography
Created by Mr. S.H. Stuart