GEA3600: Map Quiz 1

Question	Answer
Atlas Mountains	A high mountain range in northwestern Africa. In three countries: Morocco. Algeria and Tunisia. Image: Atlas Mountains (binary/octet-stream)
Mt. Tahat	Highest peak in the Hoggar Mountains (Ahaggar Mountains). In Southern Algeria, along the Tropic of Cancer Image: Mt Tahat (binary/octet-stream)
Mt. Cameroon	An active volcano in Cameroon near the Gulf of Guinea. Highest point in sub-Saharan West African and Central Africa. Image: Mt Cameroon (binary/octet-stream)
Ahaggar Mountains	Mountain range located in southern Algeria. In Southern Algeria, along the Tropic of Cancer. Image: Mt Tahat (binary/octet-stream)
Ethiopian Highlands	Most of the Ethiopian Highlands are part of central and northern Ethiopia, and its northernmost portion reaches into Eritrea. Image: Ehtiopian Highlands (binary/octet-stream)
Mt. Kenya	Second highest peak in Africa; located in Kenya. Mount Kenya is located in the former Eastern and central provinces of Kenya. Image: Mt Kenya (binary/octet-stream)
Mt. Kilimanjaro	Africa's highest mountain in Tanzania; also a volcano with its three volcanic cones, "Kibo", "Mawenzi", and "Shira" Image: Kilimanjaro 1000 (binary/octet-stream)
Muchinga Mountains	This is a mountain range located in northeastern Zambia. It is situated to the east of Lake Bangweulu, and is home to the source of the Luangwa River. This mountain range divides the Congo and Zambezi Basins. Image: Muchinga (binary/octet-stream)
Matopo Hills	The Matobo Hills cultural landscape is located in southern Zimbabwe Image: Matopo (binary/octet-stream)
Drakensberg Mountains	The Drakensberg is part of the Great Escarpment and separates the extensive high plateaus of the South African interior from the lower lands along the coast. Image: Drakensburg (binary/octet-stream)
Bié Plateau	Bié Plateau The Bié Plateau or Central Plateau of Angola is a plateau that occupies most of central Angola. Image: Bie Plateu (binary/octet-stream)
Katanga Plateau	The Katanga, or Shaba, Plateau is a farming and ranching region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image: Katanga (binary/octet-stream)
Jos Plateau	The Jos Plateau is a plateau located near the centre of Nigeria. Image: Josplateau (binary/octet-stream)
Tademaït Plateau	Tademaït is a natural region in the Sahara Desert right in the centre of Algeria. Image: Tademaitplateau (binary/octet-stream)
Nile River	The Nile river as its drainage basin covers eleven countries, namely, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Sudan and Egypt. Image: N Ile (binary/octet-stream)
White Nile River	This is the bigger part of the Nile River. Section of the Nile between Malakal, South Sudan, and Khartoum, Sudan. Image: Whitenile (binary/octet-stream)
Blue Nile River	The Blue Nile is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Image: Bluenile (binary/octet-stream)
Congo River	Congo River, formerly Zaire River, river in west-central Africa. Image: Congo (binary/octet-stream)
Zambezi River	Rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the country to empty into the Indian Ocean. Image: Zambezi.Svg (binary/octet-stream)
Black Volta River	The Black Volta or Mouhoun is a river that flows through Burkina Faso flowing to the White Volta in Dagbon, Ghana. The Black Volta forms part of the border between Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso. Image: Volta (binary/octet-stream)
White Volta	The White Volta or Nakanbé is the headstream of the Volta River, Ghana's main waterway. The White Volta emerges in northern Burkina Faso, flows through North Ghana and empties into Lake Volta in Ghana. Image: Volta (binary/octet-stream)
Senegal River	The Senegal River is a long river in West Africa that forms the border between Senegal and Mauritania. Image: Senegalr (binary/octet-stream)
Benue Rive	The Benue River is the major tributary of the Niger River. Image: Benue (binary/octet-stream)
Vaal River	The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa. Image: Vaal (binary/octet-stream)
Limpopo River	The Limpopo River rises in South Africa, and flows generally eastwards to the Indian Ocean in Mozambique. Image: Limpopo (binary/octet-stream)
Victoria Falls	Victoria Falls is located on the Zambezi River, the fourth largest river in Africa, which is also defining the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Image: Victoriafalls (binary/octet-stream)
Pacific Ocean	Image: Pacific Ocean (binary/octet-stream)
Atlantic Ocean	Image: Atlanticocean (binary/octet-stream)
Mediterranean Sea	Image: Mediterraneansea (binary/octet-stream)
Mozambique Channel	he Mozambique Channel is an arm of the Indian Ocean located between the Southeast African countries of Madagascar and Mozambique. Image: Mozambique Channel (binary/octet-stream)
Suez Canal	The Suez Canal is a sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. Image: Suezcanal (binary/octet-stream)
Indian Ocean	Image: Indian Ocean (binary/octet-stream)
Red Sea	Between Africa and Asia Image: Redsea (binary/octet-stream)
Gulf of Aden	Yemen to the North and Somalia to the South. Image: Gulfofaden (binary/octet-stream)
Gulf of Guinea	The Gulf of Guinea is the northeastern-most part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Image: Gulf Of Guinea (binary/octet-stream)
Strait of Gibraltar	The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Peninsular Spain in Europe from Morocco and Ceuta (Spain) in Africa. Image: Strait Of Gibraltar (binary/octet-stream)
Lake Chad	a historically large, shallow, lake in Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries. Has four countries surrounding it (Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria) on the edge of the Sahara. Image: Lakechad (binary/octet-stream)
Lake Victoria	Surrounded by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Image: Lake Victoria (binary/octet-stream)
Lake Nasser	Lake Nasser is a vast reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Image: Lake Nasser (binary/octet-stream)
Lake Volta	Within the country of Ghana. Image: Volta (binary/octet-stream)
Lake Kariba	Upstream from the Indian Ocean, along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Image: Lake Kariba Map (binary/octet-stream)
Lake Tanganyika	The lake is divided among four countries – Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi, and Zambia Image: Lake Tanganyika (binary/octet-stream)
Lake Malawi	An African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. Image: Lakemalawi (binary/octet-stream)
Lake Nyasa	Also known as Lake Malawi
Lake Turkana	A lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. Image: Laketurkana (binary/octet-stream)
Lake Albert	A lake located in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of the African Great Lakes. Image: Lakealbert (binary/octet-stream)
Kalahari Desert	A large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa. Image: Kalahari Desert (binary/octet-stream)
Western Desert	The Western Desert of Egypt is an area of the Sahara which lies west of the river Nile, up to the Libyan border, and south from the Mediterranean sea to the border with Sudan. Image: Western Desert (binary/octet-stream)
Nubian Desert	As in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately northeastern Sudan and northern Eritrea, between the Nile and the Red Sea. Image: Nubian Desert (binary/octet-stream)
Sahara Desert	Image: Sahara Desert (binary/octet-stream)
Eastern Desert	The Eastern Desert is the part of the Sahara desert that is located east of the Nile river, between the river and the Red Sea Image: Easterndesert (binary/octet-stream)
Libyan Desert	The Libyan Desert forms the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert. It describes that part of the Sahara that lies within the present-day state of Libya. Image: Libyan Desert (binary/octet-stream)
Namib Desert	The Namib is a coastal desert in southern Africa. Image: Namibdesert (binary/octet-stream)
El Djouf	El Djouf is a desert, an arid natural region of sand dunes and rock salt which covers northeastern Mauritania and part of northwestern Mali. Image: Djouf Basin (binary/octet-stream)

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