6 FEATURES OF AFRICA

MT KILIMANJARO

• Tallest mountain
• Dormant volcanoe
• In Tanzania
• 19,431ft tall

GREAT RIFT VALLEY

• approximately 6,000 kilometres long
• from northern Syria to central Mozambique
• Only place where plates are going apart
• Also known as Nubian plates

SHARA

• Hottest desert
• Third largest desert
• 9,400,000 square kilometres
• almost as large as China

NILE RIVER

• Longest river
• 6,853 km long
• Comes from blue and white Nile
• Mouth is the Mediterranean Sea

SAHEL

• Grassland
• Turning into a desert
• Semi arid climate
• Stretches across Africa

MADAGASCAR

• Only place that lemurs can be found
• 103 species of them
• In Indian Ocean
• South east of Africa