AFRICA VIDEO

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

1. Where in the world is Africa?

 Africa is located at the South of Europe and at the Southwest of Asia.

2. How many times is Africa larger than The United States?

 Africa is three times the size of The United States.

3. How is the savanna defined in the video?

The savanna biome is defined in the video as a grassy plain which covers nearly half of Africa.It's characterized by scattered trees among a landscape of grasses and shrubs.

4. Which animals can be found in the savanna biome?

The most common animals that can be found in the savanna biome are elephants and giraffes.

5. Where is located the chaparral biome in Africa?

The chaparral biome is located at northern coast of Africa and along the Mediterranean coast and there is also in the south of Africa as well.

6. Which are the most famous deserts in Africa?

The most famous deserts in Africa are the Sahara desert, the Namib desert and the Kalahari desert.

7. The main natural resources mentioned in the video are ....

 The main natural resources mentioned in the video are gold mines,rober trees and oil.

FIND THE MISSING WORDS

1. Africa runs 5 000 miles from the Mediterranean sea all the way down to the Cape of Good Hope and 4 600 miles from  Cape Verde all the way over to Senegal. 

2. Biomes are climate zones and throughout that area, throughout that climate zones, you can see the same average temperature and average precipitations what that means is that you also see very similar vegetation and fauna living in that region.

3.      The most famous desert in Africa is, of course, the Sahara desert. Now, some parts of the Sahara desert are sandy like you can see here. Other parts of the Sahara desert are rocky but in either case, the fact that it is very dry  is going to make it a very difficult period to cross.

4. It is not the  rain itself that’s particularly important, it’s also the environment diversity. There are many different fauna and vegetation. That can be found in the the rain forest and that’s one of the thing that makes the rain forest so valuable not just in Africa but throughout the Earth.

5. The Nile is the most famous river in Africa, because is the largest river in the world. But there is also the Congo river which is the second longest river in the world.

6. Africa actually has its own version of the Great Lakes with famous lakes like Lake Kivu,lake Malawi,lake Victoria and lake Tanganyika.

7. All the Africa is a plateau. Meaning that Africa itself is an elevated land. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find any  any mountain ranges in Africa. You can find mountain ranges like, for example, the the Atlas mountains in northwestern Africa.

8. Africa also has some interesting mountains likelike Kilimanjaro mountain, the highest mountain in Africa which seems to just  rise on it own out of the ground. 

9. The Great Rift Valley refers to a region of Africa that is  literally, being split apart. There are some tectonic plates that are located within or near Africa, that are, actually, moving away from each other, and what’s doing is creating not just some of the highest elevations in Africa, but also lakes like Tanganyika that is among the deepest in the world.