GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES

KALAHARI DESERT

• large semi-arid sandy savannah
• Expands 350,000 sq mi
• supports more animals and plants than a true desert
• small amounts of rainfall and summer temperature very high

HORN OF AFRICA

• almost equidistant from the equator and the Tropic of Cancer
• consists of mountains uplifted from the Great Rift Valley
• highest peaks in the Semien Mountains
• Shell middens 125,000 years old have been found in Eritrea

SAHARA DESERT

• the world's hottest desert
• third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic
• Over 3,600,000 sq mi
• sand dunes can reach 590 ft in height

CONGO BASIN

• begins in the highlands of the East African Rift
• total of 3.7 million square kilometers
• home of the largest undisturbed stands of tropical rainforest
• The climate is equatorial tropical

MT. KILIMANJARO

• three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira
• the highest mountain in Africa
• 19,341 feet above sea level
• It is a large stratovolcano

GREAT RIFT VALLEY

• Name given by explorer John Walter Gregory
• approximately 3,700 mi in length
• runs from northern Syria to central Mozambique
• refers to the valley of the East African Rift