Africa Physical Map Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Victoria Falls lies on the Zambezi River at the border between which two countries?
Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rwanda and Burundi
Malawi and Mozambique
Zambia and Zimbabwe
2. After the White Nile system leaves the East African Great Lakes region and enters South Sudan, which major wetland does it cross?
The Qattara Depression
The Nile Delta
The Sudd
The Makgadikgadi Pans
3. Which group consists entirely of countries with shorelines on Lake Tanganyika?
Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia
Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia
Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, and Zambia
Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania
4. Mount Kilimanjaro, the volcanic massif near the border with Kenya, is located in which country?
Uganda
Ethiopia
Tanzania
Kenya
5. Which sequence places these eastern African features in the correct general order from north to south?
Lake Turkana, Ethiopian Highlands, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya, Lake Turkana, Ethiopian Highlands, Mount Kilimanjaro
Ethiopian Highlands, Lake Turkana, Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro
Ethiopian Highlands, Mount Kenya, Lake Turkana, Mount Kilimanjaro
6. Which mountain system extends across northwestern Africa through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia?
The Tibesti Mountains
The Atlas Mountains
The Ethiopian Highlands
The Rwenzori Mountains
7. Following the Niger River downstream from its great inland bend, in which country would you reach its delta on the Gulf of Guinea?
Cameroon
Ghana
Côte d’Ivoire
Nigeria
8. A river begins near Lake Tana, flows west into Sudan, and joins the White Nile at Khartoum. Which river is it?
The Blue Nile
The Atbara River
The Sobat River
The Omo River
9. A broad central African region drains into a major Atlantic-bound river and contains extensive equatorial rainforest. Which physical region is it?
The Congo Basin
The Kalahari Basin
The Chad Basin
The lower Nile Basin
10. A traveler follows the mountainous eastern edge of South Africa and passes beside Lesotho. Which range are they most likely seeing?
The Rwenzori Mountains
The Tibesti Mountains
The Atlas Mountains
The Drakensberg
11. Lake Tana, from which the Blue Nile flows, lies within which highland region?
The Atlas Mountains
The Guinea Highlands
The Angolan Highlands
The Ethiopian Highlands
12. Which region forms a broad, semi-arid transition zone immediately south of the Sahara?
The Maghreb
The Sahel
The Miombo belt
The Cape fynbos region
13. Which desert forms a very dry coastal strip along the Atlantic side of Namibia and extends into southern Angola?
The Kalahari Desert
The Sahara Desert
The Namib Desert
The Danakil Desert
14. The Okavango River spreads into a large inland delta instead of reaching the sea. In which country is this delta primarily located?
Namibia
Botswana
Angola
Zambia
15. A ship traveling directly from Mozambique to Madagascar would cross which body of water?
The Mozambique Channel
The Red Sea
The Gulf of Aden
The Zanzibar Channel
16. A physical map shows long, narrow valleys and chains of lakes running through eastern Africa. Which tectonic process best explains this pattern?
The continental crust is pulling apart along a divergent rift system
Two continental plates are colliding and folding the land
A transform boundary is sliding horizontally without crustal stretching
A single oceanic hotspot is forming an isolated island chain