A continent of plateaus, basins, and rift valleys, Africa features dense rain

forests, vast grasslands, and the world’s largest desert.

After Pangaea, the supercontinent, broke up 200 million years agoAfrica moved very

little, unlike Americas, Antarctica, Australia, India

Africa is second largest continent

A huge plateau covers most of Africa, rising inland from coastsmost of Africa is

at least 1,000 feet above sea level

known as the “plateau continent”

The Nile River is the world’s longest river; flowing over 4,000 miles though Uganda, Sudan, Egypt and emptying out into the Mediterranean Sea.waters used for

irrigation95% of Egyptians get

water from Nile

The Congo River is the 9th longest river in the world and flows over 2,900 miles.

The Congo and its tributaries make it one of the largest river networks in the world!

Surrounding the Congo River, is the Congo River Basin, which is some of the most fertile land in the world.

Congo Tiger Fish

Major tropical rain forests are on equator in the Congo River Basin

A square acre can have hundreds of different types of trees, birds plants, trees, leaves block out

most sunlight; air is hot, moist Most animals live in canopy

— uppermost branches, 150 feet off ground birds, monkeys, flying foxes,

snakes

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Victoria Falls is one of the most famous falls, considered to be among the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.

It is 360 ft. tall and over a mile wide!

During the wet season, the flow of water makes it the largest waterfall in the world! (In terms of volume).

The natives call it Mosi-o-Tunya, which means, the “Smoke that thunders.”

Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake by area, and it is the largest tropical lake in the world.

Lake Victoria is the world's second largest freshwater lake by surface area.

Africa mainly has volcanic mountains: Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest mountain and is still an active volcano!

It rises over 19,000 ft. above sea level

The Sahara is largest desert in world; name means “desert” in Arabic

It stretches 3,000 miles from the Atlantic to the Red Sea; 1,200 miles north to south temperatures as high as

136 degrees in summer, freezing at night

fewer than 2 million of Africa’s 800 million people live in Sahara

6,000 feet under the Sahara are aquifers — stores of underground water

When this water comes to the surface it creates an oasis

Sahara and other deserts may go years without rain

Tropical grassland covers most of Africa

Serengeti Plain — northern Tanzania grasslanddry climate, hard

soil prevent growth of trees, crops

Serengeti National Park has best grasslands in the worldsome grasses grow

taller than a person ideal for grazing animals

like wildebeests, gazelles, zebras

site of largest numbers of migrating land mammals