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Africa

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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1.

NILE RIVER

  • Connects to the white and blue Nile
  • Longest river
  • Around 40 million people live in the Nile Delta region.
  • Drains into the Mediterranean Sea
Photo by Cybergate9
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SAHARA DESERT

  • Largest desert
  • The hottest desert
  • Very low humidity
  • Vey cold at nights
Photo by mvongrue
3.

GREAT RIFT VALLEY

  • Rift valleys are created by plate tectonics.
  • Dotted with volcanoes, both active and extinct
  • highest point reaches 6,200 feet above sea level;
  • it plunges below 1,900 feet
Photo by ravpix
4.

KALAHARI DESERT

  • large, basinlike plain
  • dunes measure at least 1 mile in length
  • several hundred feet in width
  • 20 to 200 feet in height
Photo by Taraji Blue
5.

WHITE NILE

  • is a whitish-gray color
  • White Nile is longer than the Blue Nile
  • empty into the Mediterranean Sea.
  • light gray sediment it carries
Photo by What Kt Did
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LAKE VICTORIA

  • Africa’s largest lake
  • it's the largest tropical lake in the world
  • the planet's second largest freshwater lake
  • receives most of its water from direct precipitation
Photo by Michell Zappa

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