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8 Geological Features

Published on Nov 24, 2015

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SAHARA

  • Worlds hottest desert
  • Third largest desert after antartica and the artic
  • Covers most of North Africa
  • Almost as large as china or the United States
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GREAT RIFT VALLEY

  • Runs from northern Syria to central Mozambique in south east asia
  • Considered geologically imprecise
  • Part of and intra continental ridge system that runs through Kenya north and south
  • Contains a chains of volcanoes
3.

LAKE VICTORIA

  • One of the African Great Lakes
  • Named after queen Victoria
  • Africa's largest lake by area
  • Worlds second largest freshwater lake by surface area
4.

MT. KILIMANJARO

  • Three volcanic cones
  • Dormant volcanic mountain
  • The highest mountain in Africa
  • Highest freestanding mountain in the world
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LAKE CHAD

  • Historically large
  • Endorhiec lake
  • Historically shallow
  • Size has varied over the centuries
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ALTAS MOUNTAINS

  • A mountain range across the northwestern stretch of artic
  • Highest peak in toubkal
  • Seperate the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara desert
  • Been a home to a number of plant and animal species unique to Africa
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CANARY ISLANDS

  • Spanish archipelago
  • Located just off the northwest coast mainland Africa
  • Islands have subtropical climate
  • Gran canaria is the most populous island
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MADAGSCAR

  • Previously known as the Malagasy republic
  • Island country in the Indian Ocean
  • Off the southeastern coast of Africa
  • Slit from India around 88 million years ago

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