ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
QUESTIONS
1. Where in the world is Africa?
Africa is located in South of Europe and in Southwest of Asia.
2. How many times is Africa larger
than The United States?
Africa is three times larger than The United States.
3. How is the savanna defined in
the video? Which animals can be found in the savanna biome?
The savanna is the wide open
grassland of Africa. It’s a grassy plain which covers the half of Africa,
characterized by scattered trees among a landscape of grasses and shrubs. You
can find giraffes, elephants… commonly associated to Africa.
4. Where is located the chaparral
biome in Africa?
It’s located at the Northern coast
of Africa along the Mediterranean and also there are some in the South of
Africa.
5. Which are the most famous
deserts in Africa?
The Sahara Desert, the Namib Desert and the Kalahari Desert.
6. The main natural resources
mentioned in the video are ...
The main natural resources mentioned in the video are rubber trees, gold
mines and oil.
FIND THE MISSING WORDS
1. Africa runs 5 000 miles from
the Mediterranean sea all the way down to the
Cape Good Hope on South Africa
and 4 600 miles from Cape Verde
all the way over
Somalia.
2. Biomes are climate zones and
throughout that area, throughout that region,
you can see the same average temperature and average precipitation what that means is that you also see very
similar plants and
animals 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 barrier to cross.
4. It is not the rain itself that’s
particularly important, it’s also the biodiversity. There are many different plants and
animals species
that can be found in the rain forest and that’s one of the thing that
makes the rain forest for so valuable not just in
Africa but throughout the Earth.
5. The Nile is
the most famous river in Africa, because is the longest river
in the world. But there is also the Congo River
which is the ninth longest river in the world.
6. Africa actually has its own
version of the great lakes with
famous lakes like 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
mountains in
Africa. You can find mountain ranges like, for example, the Atlas Mountains in
northwestern Africa.
8. Africa also has some
interesting mountains like Kilimanjaro here
the highest peak 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 elevation in Africa, but
also lakes like Lake Tanganyika that is
among the deepest in the world.
