Introduction to Africa

7th Grade Geography

Africa

Atlas Mountains Located in Northwestern Africa in Morocco.

The Atlas Mountains as a backdrop.

This scene looks so long-ago.

Atlas Mts. Notice how tiny the road is.

Mount Kilimanjaro is among the tallest freestanding mountains in the world, rising 15,100 feet from the base.

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ATLAS MOUNTAINS MOUNT KILIMANJARO

Sahara Desert

Saharan Dunes. They seem endless.

Lake Victoria is located in eastern Africa.

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Victoria is Africa’s largest

lake, and the largest

tropical lake in the

world.

Victoria Falls on the Zambezi in southern Africa.

Victoria Falls. Magnificent.

The Nile.The

Greek historian Herodotu

s wrote that

"Egypt was the

gift of the

Nile.”

Blue Nile Waterfalls

A video.

http://online.culturegrams.com/multimedia/video_player.php?type=World

An interview.

http://online.culturegrams.com/world/world_popupinterview.php?interviews_id=61

Sources http://photos.igougo.com/images/p71521-Erfoud-The_Sahar

a_Desert.jpg http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.area-

daily.com/travel/image-080903-Sahara-Desert-Exploration-Tunisia-Africa.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.area-daily.com/travel/em080903-Sahara-Desert-Exploration-Tunisia-Africa.html&usg

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/3000/3054/kilimanjaro_etm_2

http://www.foreign-independent-tours.com/images/tourdetails/EgyptNileRiver.jpg

http://images.google.com/images?q=Victoria%20Falls&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Medieval Tannery. Prod. CultureGrams. ProQuest, 2006. Video clip. Web. 2 May 2010.