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