1. Five Themes of Geography: Africa
Location
Place
Human/Environment Interaction
Movement
Region
Mr. S.H. Stuart

2. Location—How do I get there?
Exact location:
Cape Town, SA °55′S latitude, 18°25′E longitude
Cairo, Egypt
30°03′N latitude, 31°22′E longitude
Mombasa, Kenya
4°03′S latitude, 39°40′E longitude

3. Location—How do I get there?
Exact location
Relative location
Cairo is in North Africa
Cape Town is in South Africa
Mombasa, Kenya is in East Africa
View from Cape Town, SA

4. Place— What’s it like to live there?
Physical Features
Rivers– Nile, Niger, Zambezi, Congo, Limpopo
Deserts– Sahara, Libyan, Namib, Kalahari
Lakes– Victoria, Chad, Malawi, Tanganyika
Mountains– Atlas, Drakensberg
Grasslands– Masai Mara, Serengeti, veldt, savanna

5. Place— What’s it like to live there?
Human Features
Tribal regions– Kikuyu in Kenya, Tuareg in N. Mali, Zulu in S. Africa
Urban or rural– Nairobi, Kenya is a large urban area….people are pulled to it from the surrounding rural areas.
Religion– In addition to Islam and Christianity, many traditional religions are still practiced.

6. Human/Environment Interaction— How do people relate to the land?
Adapt-- People do not change the land.
Modify– People change the land.
Depend– People depend on the land.

7. Human/Environment Interaction— How do people relate to the land?
Adapt
Clothing and animals help the Tuareg adapt to life in the deep desert.
Boats help people to adapt to life along the Nile

8. Human/Environment Interaction— How do people relate to the land?
Modify
Slash and burn clears the land for farming in the Congo.
Dams provide hydroelectricity.
South Africans mine for gold, diamonds and other minerals.

9. Human/Environment Interaction— How do people relate to the land
Depend
Africans depend on the land for FOOD, CLOTHING, SHELTER, TRANSPORTATION… for everything!

10. Movement— How do people, goods and ideas move in & out?
People– What people move in and out of this region? By what means of transportation?
Goods– What goods move in and out of this region?
Ideas– What ideas move? By what means of communication?

11. Region— Geographers invent regions
Mediterranean Africa– It looks and feels like Spain and Italy….all the countries along the Mediterranean Sea, AND South Africa.
The Sahara– Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, northern Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan.
Grasslands– Senegal, southern Mali, southern Niger, Somalia, Kenya

12. Region— Geographers invent regions
Highlands– The mountainous countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique
Rainforest– The seacoast from Senegal to Angola. The countries of Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Great Lakes– Border Africa’s Rift Valley lakes– Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique

13. AFRICA: The Five Themes of Geography
Created by Mr. S.H. Stuart