Sunday 15 January 2017

VIDEO OF AFRICA:ACTIVITIES

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:




1.     Where in the world is Africa?

2.     How many times is Africa larger than The United States?

3.     How is the savanna defined in the video?

4.     Which animals can be found in the savanna biome?

5.     Where is located the chaparral biome in Africa?

6.     Which are the most famous deserts in Africa?

7.     The main natural resources mentioned in the video are ....






Where in the world is Africa? Africa is the continent that is located south of Europe and southwest of Asia.
Resultado de imagen de africa localizacion
 
How many times is Africa larger than The United States? It's three times the size of The United States.

How is the savanna defined in the video?  The savanna is a grassy plain which covers nearly half of Africa. The savanna characterized by scattered trees among a landscape of grasses and shrubs

Which animals can be found in the savanna biome? Giraffes and elephants  can be found in the savanna biome .

Where is located the chaparral biome in Africa? There is not very much chaparral that can be found in Africa. It is located in the northern coast of Africa and some in south Africa as well.
Resultado de imagen de chaparral


Which are the most famous deserts in Africa? The most famous deserts in Africa are the Sahara Desert, the Namib Desert and the Kalahari Desert.
Sahara Desert - Digital Vision/Getty Images
 

The main natural resources mentioned in the video are...  oil, gold mines and rober trees.


FIND THE MISSING WORDS

1.      Africa runs 5 000 miles from the Mediterranean sea all the way down to the cape of Good Hope and 4 600 miles from Cape Verde all the way over to Somalia.



2.      Biomes are climate zones and throughout that area, throughout that region ,you can see the same average temperature and average precipitation what that means is that you also see very similar plants and animals living in that region.



3.      The most famous desert in Africa is, of course, the Sahara desert. Now, some parts of the Sahara desert are sandy, like you can see here. Other parts of the Sahara desert are rocky but in either case, the fact that it is very dry is going to make it a very difficult period to cross.



4.      It is not the  rain itself that’s particularly important, it’s also the biodiversity There are many different plants and animals species that can be found in the rain forest and that’s one of the thing that makes the rain forest so valuable not just in Africa but throughout the Earth.



5.      The Nile river is the most famous river in Africa, because is the longest river in the world. But there is also the Congo river which is the ninth longest river in the world.



6.      Africa actually has its own version of the great lakes with famous lakes like Lake Malawi, lake Victoria and lake Tanganyika as well.



7.      All the Africa is a plateau. Meaning that Africa itself is an elevated land. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find any mountains in Africa. You can find mountain ranges like, for example, the Atlas mountains in northwestern Africa.



8.      Africa also has some interesting mountains like mountain Kilimanjaro , the highest peak in Africa which seems to just rise on it own out of the  ground.



9.      The Great Rift Valley refers to a region of Africa that is  literally, being split apart. There are some tectonics plates that are located within or near Africa, that are, actually, moving away from each other, and what’s doing is creating not just some of the highest elevations in Africa, but also lakes like Lake Tanganyika that is among the deepest in the world