Monday, 16 January 2017

GEOGRAPHY: Activities of the video
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
1.Where in the world is Africa?
 Africa is located at the south of Europe and at the southwest of Asia.
2.How many times is Africa larger than the United States?
 Africa is three times the size of the United States.
3.How is the savanna defined in the video?
 The savanna biome is defined in the video as a grassy plain wich covers nearly half of Africa. It's characterized by scattered trees among a landscape of grasses and shrubs.
4.Wich animal can be found in the savanna biome?
 The most common animal that can be found in the savanna biome are elephants and giraffes.
5.Where is located the chaparral biome in Africa?
 The chaparral is located at northern coast of Africa and long Mediterranean coast.
6.Wich are the most famous deserts in Africa?
 The most famous deserts in Africa are the Sahara desert, Kalahari desert and the Namib desert.
7.The main natural resources are mentioned in the video are...
 The main natural resources mentioned in the video are rubber trees, oil and gold mines.
FIND THE MISSING WORDS.
 1.Africa runs 5000 miles from the Mediterranean sea all the way down to the Cape of Good Hope and 4600 miles from Cape Verde all the way over to Senegal.
2.Biomes are climate zones and throughout that area, throughout that climates zones, you can see the same average temperature and average precipitation what that means is that you also see very similar fauna and vegetation living in that region.
3.The most famous desert in Africa is, of course, the Sahara desert. Now some parts of the Sahara desert are sandy like you can see here. Other parts of the Sahara desert rocky but in either case, the fact it is very dry is going to make it a very difficult barrier to cross.
4.It is not the rain it self that’s particularly important, it’s also the biodiversity There are many different fauna and vegetation That can be found in the rain forest and that’s one of the thing that makes the rain forest so valuable not just in Africa but throughout the Earth.
5.The Nile is the most famous river in Africa, because is the largest  river in the world. But there is also the Congo river which is the naive longest river in the world.
6.Africa actually has its own version of the Great Lakes with famous lakes like lake Malawi,lake Victoria and lake Tanganyika.
7.All the Africa is a plateau. Meaning that Africa itself is an elevated land. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t  find any mountain ranges like, for example, the Atlas mountains in northwestern Africa.
8.Africa also has some interesting mountains like Kilimanjaro mountain, the highest mountain in Africa which seems to just rise on it own out of the ground.
9.The Great Rift Valley refers to a region of Africa that is literally, being split apart. There are some tectonic plates that are located within or near Africa, that are, actually moving away from each other, and what’s doing is creating not just some of the highest elevation in Africa, but also lakes like Tanganyika that is among  the deapest in the world.