Unit #1, AFRICA
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Unit 1 – Africa
Lesson 4– Geography of Africa
Key things to remember
1. it’s a continent, NOT a country
– Has 54 countries of its own!
2. It’s HUGE
– You can fit USA and China in it
3. It has a lot of dessert
4. It has a lot of rain forest
5. It’s mostly near the equator –
so it’s WARM
In this unit, we’ll
be studying
ONLY Africa to
the South of the
Sahara Desert
AFRICA WAS ONCE HOME TO A
THRIVING, WEALTHY,
TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION
Mansa Musa, richest man EVER (worth $400 billion)
The richest people of all time:
1. Mansa Musa I, (Ruler of Malian Empire, 1280-1331) $400 billion
3. John D Rockefeller (industrialist, 1839-1937) $340 billion
4. Andrew Carnegie (industrialist, 1835-1919) $310 billion
5. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (Czar of Russia, 1868-1918) $300 billion
9. Henry Ford (Ford Motor Company, 1863-1947) $199 billion
10. Cornelius Vanderbilt (industrialist, 1794-1877) $185 billion
12. Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft, 1955- ) $136 billion
14. John Jacob Astor (businessman, 1864-1912) $121 billion
16. John of Gaunt (son of Edward III, 1330-1399) $110 billion
19. Henry, Duke of Lancaster (Engl noble, 1310-1361) $85.1 billion
25. Sam Walton (Walmart founder, 1918-1992) $65 billion
MANSA MUSA
RICHEST MAN EVER
IN THE HISTORY OF
THE WORLD
FORMER
AMERICAN
INDUSTRIALISTS
EUROPEAN
MONARCHS
CURRENT
BUSINESSMEN
RICH MEN
How rich was Mansa Musa?
1. His wealth is 2.5% more
than Bill Gates
2. He’s richer than the
richest American ever
was
3. He’s richer than the
richest European king
ever was
4. He’s twice as rich as the
current two richest
Americans COMBINED
SAY
WHAT?!
AFRICA WAS HOME TO A THRIVING,
WEALTHY, TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION
SO WHAT
HAPPENED?
POSSIBLE REASONS:
AFRICANS HAVE SUFFERED
• Invasion
• Disease
• Wars
• Famine
• Poverty
INVASION
• Europeans arrived, took what they wanted,
and left Africans to “just deal”
What two nations “owned” most of Africa?
DISEASE
• The worst diseases in the world
come from Africa
DISEASES
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Malaria
Ebola
HIV
Yellow Fever
About what percentage of the
HiV population is in Africa?
Which part of Africa is
most effected by HiV?
FAMINE
• Poor crop growth is BAD in a region where
people grow their own food to survive
What has been happening to African farmland?
WARS
• Wars between
Africans have
claimed millions of
lives
POVERTY
• Africans do NOT have a thriving economy. Most
depend on small gardens for the food they eat.
• And the land is just not all
that great for farming
Next slides are not notes…
Cartoon Analysis
• What does this next cartoon imply about what
caused all these problems in Africa?
Nature
Use Global Mosaic Text Book
1. Look at the picture on p. 58. Name the mountain in
the picture. Then describe it.
2. Look at the pic on p. 67. Describe what you see.
3. Look at the pic on p. 68 – describe details.
Climate of Africa
4. Look at the map on p. 65. What is the biggest
climate zone? Where is it?
5. What is the BIG [yellow] section called?
Environmental Interaction
6. Look at the pic on
p. 70. Describe.
Environmental Interaction
7. Look at p.86 – 90. Describe farming techniques.
Africa so far… facts
• List five facts about Africa you now know
about Africa.
Africa so far… your opinion
• List adjectives about Africa
YOUR OPINION
Would you want to live in Africa?
Why?
MAP WORK
Locate the following places on your Africa maps:
p. 57 and 62 in Global Mosaic
Nations
Democratic Republic of Congo
(DROC)
Ethiopia
Ghana
Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire)
Kenya
Liberia
Madagascar
Niger (“nee-JARE”)
Nigeria
Rwanda
Somalia
South Africa
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Physical Features
Nile River
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Sahara Desert
Kalahari Desert
click
Link to practice web site:
http://lizardpoint.com/geograph
y/africa-quiz.php
Directions
• Choose ONLY the countries on the list
• Click on the location on the map, then
• Click on the name on the list
Ways to remember African nations