Locate and label all of the countries of Africa and draw and label the following physiographic features: Nile River Serengeti Atlas Mts Sahara Desert Kalahari Desert Congo River Niger River Great Rift Valley Ethiopian Highlands Mt. Kilimanjaro Congo Basin Madagascar Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Mediterranean Sea Your map must use color and include a key (legend)

Congo River It is the second longest river in Africa at 2920 miles (the Nile is the longest). It is the ninth longest river in the world. The Congo River is the deepest river in the world. It reaches depths of over 750 feet The Congo River is so powerful that if has the potential to supply all of sub-Saharan Africa's electricity needs.

What lives in the Congo River?

Niger River The Niger is the third- longest river in Africa, at 2600 miles The Niger has an unusual route It starts approximately 150 miles from the Atlantic Instead of flowing to the nearby Atlantic Ocean it instead heads inland, away from the sea into the Sahara Desert. It turns sharply near the city of Timbuktu and heads to the Gulf of Guinea. Unlike the Nile, the Niger is very clear. This is because its source contains very little silt

Nile River It is the longest river in the world. It is approximately 4,160 miles The Nile river flows from the high mountains in the middle regions of Africa north to the Nile delta. The Nile flows through 10 countries: Egypt, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzanian, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Kenya. Ancient Egyptian civilization grew from the Nile River The Aswan High Dam was built to control the annual flooding of the Nile; it also provides tremendous hydroelectric power

Lake Victoria It is Africa's largest lake and has a surface area of 26,600 square miles It is the largest tropical lake in the world. It is the world's second largest freshwater lake measured by surface area. The only larger freshwater lake is Lake Superior in North America. Approximately 80 percent of the lakes water comes from rain. The other 20 percent comes from small streams flowing into the lake.

Atlas Mountains The mountain range stretches approximately 1,600 miles (2,500 kilometers) across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia The windward side of the mts face the Mediterranean and Atlantic ; the leeward faces the Sahara Desert. Mineral deposits found in this mountain range include gold, silver, zinc, lead, and iron. Many indigenous species are now extinct including: North African Elephant and the Barbary Lion

One of the oldest centers of human civilization in the world. Known as the "African Alps," contain roughly 80 percent of the highest mountains in Africa Much of the natural soil in the Ethiopian Highlands region has been destroyed due to the farming of coffee and teff, (a grain) Droughts and famines have plagued the area in recent times, making Ethiopia one of the focal points for world starvation. Ethiopian Highlands

The Rift Valley, also known as the Great Rift Valley or Eastern Rift Valley, Geological feature that runs south from Jordan in south west Asia, through East Africa and down to Mozambique in southern Africa. In all the Rift Valley is 6,400 km (4,000 miles) long and is 64 km (35 miles) wide on average. It is 30 million years old and exhibits extensive volcanism, having produced Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya.

Sahara Desert The Sahara is the world’s largest hot desert and one of the harshest environments on the planet. It is third largest desert overall after Antarctica and the Arctic, which are cold deserts. At 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million square kilometers), the Sahara, which is Arabic for "The Great Desert," engulfs most of North Africa. The desert covers large sections of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. sahara