AFRICA

SAHARA DESERT

• Worlds hottest desert
• Worlds third largest desert
• Winds can reach hurricane level and give rise to sand storms, dust devils.
• There's little water or vegetation to sustain life in most part of the Sahara.

MADAGASCAR

• Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island
• It has a mountainous central plateau and coastal plains.
• Agriculture: Coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves; livestock products
• Scientists think it broke off of Africa 160 million years ago

NILE RIVER

• regarded as the longest river in the world
• Around 40 million people live in the Nile Delta region.
• 22% of the Nile’s course runs through Egypt.
• the Nile creates a fertile green valley across the desert.

ATLAS MOUNTAINS

• They span across three countries:Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia.
• The highest point is Jbel Toubkal (13,671 feet)
• Mostly grassland and no trees.
• The Atlas Mountains contain a wide variety of mineral deposits

LAKE CHAD

• Large, shallow, endorheic lake in Africa
• It shrank as much as 95% from about 1963 to 1998
• Freshwater lake
• Its surface area varies greatly by season

HORN OF AFRICA

• A peninsula in East Africa
• Inhabited by roughly 100 million people
• 1 in 5 children are severely malnourished in this region
• 30% of the overall population has access to safe water

CANARY ISLANDS

• Also known as the Canaries
• Derived from Latin meaning "Island of the Dogs"
• Ancient people worshipped dogs on the islands
• Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland
• Africa

NAMIB DESERT

• Coastal desert in Southern Africa
• The name Namib is of Nama origin and means vast place
• Stretches for more than 2,000 kilometres along the Atlantic coasts
• Almost completely uninhabited by humans except for
• several small settlements