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Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

Which rivers in Africa crosses the Equator twice?

  1. Zambezi River

  2. Congo River

  3. Niger River

  4. Nile River
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Congo River has a total length of 4,370 km (2,715 mi). It is the only river to cross the equator twice. The Congo Basin has a total area of about 4,000,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi), or 13% of the entire African landmass.

Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

What is the latitudinal extent of the continent of Africa?

  1. $20^0N-30^0S$
  2. $30^0N-37^0S$
  3. $37^0N-35^0S$
  4. $30^0N-50^0S$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Latitudinal Extent of Africa is $37^0N$ to $35^0S$ whereas the longitudinal extent being $51^0E$ to $16^0W$. It is one of the most populated continent. Also it is the second largest continent measuring about 30.3 million km2 with about 54 countries in it and approximately 3000 native languages.

Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

In which river of Africa the Aswan dam is situated?

  1. Zambezi

  2. Niger

  3. Nile

  4. Ghana
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

River Nile:
Aswan High Dam is a rock-fill dam located at the northern border between Egypt and Sudan. The dam is fed by the River Nile and the reservoir forms Lake Nasser. Construction for the project began in 1960 and was completed in 1968.

Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

The Great Rift Valley of Africa stretches for a distance of about __________.

  1. 5,000 km

  2. 6,000 km

  3. 7,000 km

  4. 8,000 km
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) in total length, that runs from the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in southeastern Africa.[1] While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in Geology nowadays as it is considered an imprecise merging of separate though related rift and fault systems.

Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

Olive, cork, oak, walnut are the trees of which climatic type?

  1. Tropical desert

  2. Mediterranean type

  3. Monsoon type

  4. China type
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section Quercus sect. Cerris is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the cores of cricket balls. It is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. 

In the Mediterranean basin, the tree is an ancient species with fossil remnants dating back to the Tertiary period.

Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

Who coined the term 'Dark Continent' for Africa?

  1. France

  2. Europeans

  3. Germans

  4. Portuguese
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
Europe did not know much about Africa until the 19th century, but that answer is misleading and disingenuous. Europeans had known quite a lot about Africa for at least 2,000 years, but because of powerful imperial impulses, European leaders began purposefully ignoring earlier sources of information.

At the same time, the campaign against slavery and for missionary work in Africa actually intensified Europeans’ racial ideas about African people in the 1800s. They called Africa the Dark Continent, because of the mysteries and the savagery they expected to find in the “Interior."
Multiple choice geography africa - location, political divisions and physical features study of africa africa africa - the central continent cocoa cultivation in ghana

What is the longitudinal extent of Africa? 

  1. $10^0W-35^0E$
  2. $15^0W-40^0E$
  3. $16^0W-51^0E$
  4. $20^0W-55^0E$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Latitudinal Extent of Africa is $37^0N$ to $35^0S$ whereas the longitudinal extent being $51^0E$ to $16^0W$. It is one of the most populated continent. Also it is the second largest continent measuring about 30.3 million km2 with about 54 countries in it and approximately 3000 native languages.