Question

State the latitudinal and longitudinal extent of Africa.

2. Explain the difference between the upper course and lower course of the rivers of

Africa.

3. Name the water bodies that surround Africa.

4. Write a short note on the Coastal Plains of Africa.

5. Explain the location of the rift valley.

6. Write a short note on the Low Central Plateau with reference to the following

points:

- Extent

- Desert

- Special Feature​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Latitudinal Extent of Africa is 370N to 350S whereas the longitudinal extent being 510E to 160W.

2. Upper course river features include steep-sided V-shaped valleys, interlocking spurs, rapids, waterfalls and gorges.

Lower course river features include wide flat-bottomed valleys, floodplains and deltas.

3.The continent is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, and on the south by the mingling waters of the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

4.Coastal East Africa encompasses a beautiful tapestry of land and sea—from mountains and grasslands to mangroves and fringing coral reefs. The eastern and southern coastal regions are drained by numerous shorter rivers. There are very few coastal rivers along the arid west coast north of 31°30′S.

5.A rift valley is a lowland region that forms where Earth's tectonic plates move apart, or rift. Rift valleys are found both on land and at the bottom of the ocean, where they are created by the process of seafloor spreading.

6.i) EXTENT:

The high southern and eastern plateaus, rarely falling below 600 m (2,000 ft), have a mean elevation of about 1,000 m (3,300 ft). The South African Plateau, as far as about 12° S, is bounded east, west and south by bands of high ground which fall steeply to the coasts.

ii) DESERT:

Due south, the plateau rim is formed by three parallel steps with level ground between them. The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.

iii) SPECIAL FEATURES:

Africa can be divided into a number of geographic zones:

a) The coastal plains — often fringed seawards by mangrove swamps — never stretching far from the coast, apart from the lower courses of streams. Recent alluvial flats are found chiefly in the delta of the more important rivers. Elsewhere, the coastal lowlands merely form the lowest steps of the system of terraces that constitutes the ascent to the inner plateaus.

b)The Atlas range — orthographically distinct from the rest of the continent, being unconnected with and separated from the south by a depressed and desert area (the Sahara).

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