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Exploring Africa's Physical and Cultural Geography Using GIS

Physical Geography

Answer Key

Step 7.  
 
  A) [Most rivers begin from lakes. Lakes are located in the mountains

or high plains.]

B) [Atlas Mountains of Morocco]

C) 1. [Congo River flows North before it turns West, towards the Atlantic Ocean]

2. [Zambezi flows East to the Indian Ocean]

3. [Orange flows West to the Atlantic Ocean]

4. [Nile flows North to the Mediterranean Sea]

Step 13.  

A) [Fewest rivers begin in the Tropical Belt]

B) [Most rivers begin in the Subequatorial Belt]

C) [Most densely populated belt would be the Subequatorial Belt around the lakes and rivers]

Step 19.  

A) [The desert region in Angola, Botswana, and Namibia. Also, desert

area in Somalia, Djibouti, parts of Kenya and Ethiopia.]

B) [Precipitation in mid-belt 601-1400mm]

Step 21.  

A) [Vegetation types North of the Atlas Mountains are Mediterranean and Low Grass]

B) [Influence of the Atlantic Ocean on the Western Sahara brings moisture inland with the

sea breezes so vegetation can grow, creating the Low Grass Savannah and Desert Scrub

C) [Primary vegetation of the low coastal plain of Libya is Low Grass]

D) [Tropical rain forest areas do not share the same relief. Some are low mountains along

the Ivory Coast, some are Low Plains, some are High Plains. Depends on where the mountains

are in relation to the Trade Winds from the oceans]

E) [The mountains in Swaziland along the East Coast blocks the precipitation coming from

the Indian Ocean and creates the desert land on the West Coast.]

F) [Dominant relief feature of the tropical grasslands are the High Plains.)