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Which desert is situated in Africa?

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  1. Thar

  2. Gobi

  3. Sahara

  4. Atacama

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Sahara desert is situated in Africa. It is the largest hot desert in the world. It covers an area of 9,200,000 square kilometers. 

Which rivers in Africa crosses the Equator twice?

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  1. Zambezi River

  2. Congo River

  3. Niger River

  4. Nile River

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Correct Option: B
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.

What is the latitudinal extent of the continent of Africa?

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  1. $20^0N-30^0S$

  2. $30^0N-37^0S$

  3. $37^0N-35^0S$

  4. $30^0N-50^0S$

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Correct Option: C
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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.

In which river of Africa the Aswan dam is situated?

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  1. Zambezi

  2. Niger

  3. Nile

  4. Ghana

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Correct Option: C
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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.

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

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  1. 5,000 km

  2. 6,000 km

  3. 7,000 km

  4. 8,000 km

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Correct Option: B
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.

Which dam is situated in the river Zambezi?

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  1. Aswan Dam

  2. Kariba Dam

  3. Kainji Dam

  4. Volta river project

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Kariba Dam :
The Kariba Dam is a double curvature concrete arch dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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

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  1. Tropical desert

  2. Mediterranean type

  3. Monsoon type

  4. China type

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Correct Option: B
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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.

Which country is the smallest in area in the African continent?

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  1. Senegal

  2. Morocco

  3. Seychelles

  4. Madagascar

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Seychelles, the smallest country by area (451 square km), is also the least populated sovereign African nation with a population of about 94,228 people.

Who coined the term 'Dark Continent' for Africa?

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  1. France

  2. Europeans

  3. Germans

  4. Portuguese

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Correct Option: B
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."

What is the longitudinal extent of Africa? 

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  1. $10^0W-35^0E$

  2. $15^0W-40^0E$

  3. $16^0W-51^0E$

  4. $20^0W-55^0E$

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Correct Option: C
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.