Geo 1310 Exam 4:Cooper Exam/64
Complete Q’s and A’s
Africa - --lacks any mountain ranges with high elevations
>bc of location in central pangea
-75% plateaus surface
-steep drop offs to the coast
>typically no beaches
-very few good natural harbors
- Atlas Mountains - --top out at 13,000 feet in elevation
-north/western part of Africa
-haired and dry
- Drakensberg Mountains - --formed by ancient volcanic activity
-top out at 13,000 feet
-greener conditions and more rainfall than Atlas
- Guinea Highlands - --West Africa
-mineral rich region
>bauxite reserves
- Adamawa Highlands - --created from volcanic activity
-important for a culture, thriving iron age civilization
-origin point for the Bantu Migration
>brought language with them
>Bantu Family of language are dominant
in Eastern and Southern Africa today
- Ethiopian Highlands - --15-16,000 ft. elevation
-formed by lava flow from cracks in the Earth's Surface
-volcanic and tectonic activity
-East Africa is still the most tectonically active in Africa today
-Where we believed coffee originated
- Isolated Volcanic Peaks of East Africa - --Mount Kilimanjaro
>tallest peak in Africa 19,340 ft
>one of the most dramatic elevation changes
>has always had a snow cap, but now disappearing rapidly
-Eastern Africa, breaking apart from continent and dropping in elevation
>Great Rift Valley
- Rift Valley Lakes of East Africa - --all located in grabbers (downward falted
block of the earth's crust)
, 1.Lake Rudolf
2.Lake Albert
3.Lake Edward
4.Lake Kivu
5.Lake Tanganyika (largest, deepest 1 mil. deep)
- Lake Victoria*** - --largest lake in surface area
-not a rift valley lake
>resulted from drainage patterns
- Nile River - --world's longest river (4,145 miles)
-"exotic stream", flowing from humid area to a dry area
>Cairo, Egypt, 1.8 in of rain a year
>river important to civilization here
-1950's, Egypt wanted to guarantee water access to Nile River
>created Lake Nasser (largest man made rivers)
-Aswan High Dam
-Egypt would be better off with the dam
>negative effects
>need artificial fertilizers; kills marine life
-Nile Delta, salt water creeping in from the Mediterranean
>killing plant life caused by standing water from the dam
>attract mosquitos
>has snails that carry a flat worm
>schistosomiasis (bilhardas) if you get a cut while in the water, worm enters
blood stream
- Niger River - --major river of west Africa
-goes from west->dry->wet area
-Niger will dry up along its course in Mali
>fanning out and depositing its sediments
>causing and inland delta
>created a deposit of fertile soil
>during wet season, things grow
- Gulf of Guinea - --deposits oil and natural gas
- Congo River - --2nd largest volume of fresh wanter in the world
-draining a huge area that is tropical
>80-200 in. of annual rainfall
-contains 1/11th of the world's hydroelectric potential
>plateau drops off
-Although, hard to use for transportation due to rapids, waterfall drops off
- Zambezi River - --Some hydroelectric potential
-Kariba dam created Lake Kariba
Complete Q’s and A’s
Africa - --lacks any mountain ranges with high elevations
>bc of location in central pangea
-75% plateaus surface
-steep drop offs to the coast
>typically no beaches
-very few good natural harbors
- Atlas Mountains - --top out at 13,000 feet in elevation
-north/western part of Africa
-haired and dry
- Drakensberg Mountains - --formed by ancient volcanic activity
-top out at 13,000 feet
-greener conditions and more rainfall than Atlas
- Guinea Highlands - --West Africa
-mineral rich region
>bauxite reserves
- Adamawa Highlands - --created from volcanic activity
-important for a culture, thriving iron age civilization
-origin point for the Bantu Migration
>brought language with them
>Bantu Family of language are dominant
in Eastern and Southern Africa today
- Ethiopian Highlands - --15-16,000 ft. elevation
-formed by lava flow from cracks in the Earth's Surface
-volcanic and tectonic activity
-East Africa is still the most tectonically active in Africa today
-Where we believed coffee originated
- Isolated Volcanic Peaks of East Africa - --Mount Kilimanjaro
>tallest peak in Africa 19,340 ft
>one of the most dramatic elevation changes
>has always had a snow cap, but now disappearing rapidly
-Eastern Africa, breaking apart from continent and dropping in elevation
>Great Rift Valley
- Rift Valley Lakes of East Africa - --all located in grabbers (downward falted
block of the earth's crust)
, 1.Lake Rudolf
2.Lake Albert
3.Lake Edward
4.Lake Kivu
5.Lake Tanganyika (largest, deepest 1 mil. deep)
- Lake Victoria*** - --largest lake in surface area
-not a rift valley lake
>resulted from drainage patterns
- Nile River - --world's longest river (4,145 miles)
-"exotic stream", flowing from humid area to a dry area
>Cairo, Egypt, 1.8 in of rain a year
>river important to civilization here
-1950's, Egypt wanted to guarantee water access to Nile River
>created Lake Nasser (largest man made rivers)
-Aswan High Dam
-Egypt would be better off with the dam
>negative effects
>need artificial fertilizers; kills marine life
-Nile Delta, salt water creeping in from the Mediterranean
>killing plant life caused by standing water from the dam
>attract mosquitos
>has snails that carry a flat worm
>schistosomiasis (bilhardas) if you get a cut while in the water, worm enters
blood stream
- Niger River - --major river of west Africa
-goes from west->dry->wet area
-Niger will dry up along its course in Mali
>fanning out and depositing its sediments
>causing and inland delta
>created a deposit of fertile soil
>during wet season, things grow
- Gulf of Guinea - --deposits oil and natural gas
- Congo River - --2nd largest volume of fresh wanter in the world
-draining a huge area that is tropical
>80-200 in. of annual rainfall
-contains 1/11th of the world's hydroelectric potential
>plateau drops off
-Although, hard to use for transportation due to rapids, waterfall drops off
- Zambezi River - --Some hydroelectric potential
-Kariba dam created Lake Kariba
