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| Rift Valley |
a large crack in the earth's surface formed by shifting tectonic plates |
| The Great Rift Valley |
stretches from Syria in Southwest Asia to Mozambique in the southeastern part of Africa |
| escarpment |
steep, often jagged slopes or cliffs, most escarpments are located less than 20 miles from the coast |
| cataracts |
towering waterfalls |
| estuary |
a passage where freshwater from a river meets sea water. |
| Ruwenzori Mountains |
divide Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Covered with snow and cloaked in clouds, these mountains are also called the Mountains of the Moon |
| Drakensberg Range |
part of the Cape Mountains, rise to 11,000 feet and form an escarpment |
| Lake Victoria |
largest lake in Africa lies between the eastern and western branches of the Great Rift Valley. |
| Lake Volta |
is in West Africa is one of the largest man made lakes in the world. It was created in the 1960s by damming the Volta River south of Ajena, Ghana |
| The Niger River |
means "Great River" it is the main artery in western Africa. It is 2,600 miles long. |
| The Zambezi River |
is 2,200 miles long. It starts on the border of Zambia and Angola and heads to the Indian ocean. It is interrupted by Victoria Falls |
| Victoria Falls |
is on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, it is twice the height of Niagara Falls |
| Pula |
a Botswana word for rain |
| leach |
heavy rains in the tropical rainforest dissolve or carry away nutrients from the soil |
| savanna |
tropical grassland with scaterred trees |
| harmattan |
hot dry winds from the Sahara |
| Serengeti plain |
one of the world's largest savanna plains |
| Sahel |
means shore or edge in arabic. It is a band of dry land just below the Sahara |
| desertification |
a process by which productive land turns into desert following the destruction of vegetation. |
| Namib desert |
runs along the coast of the Atlantic in Namibia |
| Kalahari desert |
occupies eastern Namibia, most of Botswana and part of South Africa |
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