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Geography of Africa
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| Physical feature | definition |
|---|---|
| Sahara | World’s largest, hot desert, covering most of Northern |
| Tropical Rainforest | Central African tropical rainforest is the second largest in the world |
| Savanna | Rolling grassland and scattered trees and shrubs |
| Nile River | World’s longest river; flows northward into the Mediterranean Sea |
| Lake Victoria | Reservoir for the Nile River; largest lake in Africa; 2nd largest freshwater lake in the world |
| Lake Tanganyika | Longest lake and second deepest in the world; lies in central Africa |
| Kalahari Desert | Large, dry, sandy area in southern Africa |
| Congo River | Second longest river in Africa; crosses the equator twice and is surrounded by rain forest |
| Niger River | Main river in western Africa; five African nations depend on it for water; flows into the Atlantic |
| Atlas Mountains | Range in northern Africa between the Mediterranean Sea and Sahara Desert |
| Equator | An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°. |
| Prime Meridian | A Earth's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude. |
| Deforestation | A major environmental issue in many African nations |
| Desertification | The process by which dry land becomes a desert |
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