Outline and Questions on Africa Continued 



What effect do the mountains of Africa have on the temperature? On the rainfall? 



On the rivers? 



What is one of the great dangers that desert caravans have to face? 

 What cruel custom do some of the tribes have with regard to their aged? 

 What are the two great divisions of the inhabitants of Africa? 

 How did Stanley's purpose in going to Africa differ from Livingstone's? 

 Is Africa chiefly an independent continent, or one governed from without? 

 What part of the western hemisphere is in the same latitude as the Desert of Sahara? 

 What are the differences in the conditions of the two places? 

 What difference has the Suez Canal made to commerce? 



What is the largest island near Africa? Is its relation with the mainland very close? 

 Why do not the lions, elephants and giraffes make their homes in the tropical jungles 



of Africa? 



In what three respects does Africa rank second among the continents? 

 What proportion of the drainage of Africa finds no outlet to the sea? 

 What does the Arab of Africa understand by the word bath? 

 What is the chief mountain range of Africa? 

 Does it contain the highest peak? 

 For what is Kimberley noted? 



What part of the continent produces copper in abundance? 

 Name three animals that live in Africa and nowhere else in the world. 

 How does the Congo compare in length with the Mississippi? The Nile with the 



Amazon? 



What part of Africa was known to the world in the time of the Romans? 

 What explorer first sailed around the Cape of Good Hope? 

 Who are the Boers? 



Compare Victoria Nyanza in size and shape with Lake Superior. 

 Give some of the main characteristics of the Hottentots. 

 How does the highest point in Africa compare in altitude with the highest point in 



South America? 



How much larger is Africa than South America? Than Europe? 

 Would good natural harbors have had any effect on the history of Africa? 

 What are rift valleys? 

 Is the southernmost point of Africa as far south as the southernmost point of South 



America? 



How many of the great rivers of Africa discharge into the Atlantic? 

 What is the longest lake in the world? 

 How does the southern desert differ from the Sahara? 

 Name several ways in which the Africans use the baobab tree. 

 What is a savanna? 



What was the object of Roosevelt's expedition to Africa? 

 What was the popular name for Africa a generation ago? Is it still appropriate? 

 About how many oases are there in the Desert of Sahara? 

 ( M" what use is the date palm to the people of Africa? 

 From the map, pick out the largest political division of Africa. 

 What did David Livingstone accomplish for Africa? 

 When was the Union of South Africa established? 

 Compare the Bushmen and the Hottentots as to intelligence. 

 Do all the Arabs live in Arabia? 

 What harm has the desire for ivory done? 

 What did the seventeenth-century traders carry off with tin m when they visited 



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How does the African elephant differ from the Asiatic? 



