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Exploring Africa's Geography and Cultural Diversity

This lesson focuses on identifying key landforms and natural resources in Africa while examining how geography influences human settlements and cultural diversity. Students will explore Africa's hospitable coasts, inhospitable interiors, and distinct geographic regions, including Northern, Western, Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa. Key features such as the Sahara, the Great Rift Valley, and major rivers will be highlighted. Additionally, the lesson will discuss the impacts of climate, urbanization, and health challenges on the continent's diverse populations and lifestyles.

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Exploring Africa's Geography and Cultural Diversity

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  1. AFRICA – Lesson 1 GEOGRAPHY & PEOPLES

  2. Identify key landforms and resources. Locate nations and geographic features on a map of Africa. Explain how geographic features have influenced where people live and contributed to the cultural diversity of the continent. OBJECTIVES

  3. Warm up • List the features you associate with Africa’s geography & climate.

  4. Geography • Hospitable coasts • Inhospitable interior • 5 geographic regions • Northern Africa • Western Africa • Eastern Africa • Central Africa • Southern Africa

  5. Climate • Rainfalldecreases w/distance from equator • Deserts • N.Africa – Sahara (3.2mm2) • Kalahari & Namib in south • Rainforests • Savanna/Grasslands • Mediterranean Climate

  6. Landforms • Plateau • Mountains: • Atlas in NW • Drakensberg in SE • Mt. Kilimanjaro – Tanzania • Great Rift Valley • Break in Earth’s crust • Rivers: • Nile Zambezi • Congo Niger

  7. Natural & economic resources • Subsistence farming & nomadic herding • Minerals – petroleum, gold, diamonds, copper, uranium, coltan • Largely underdeveloped • Foreign co’s invest, take $

  8. Human diversity • 763 million ppl & growing • Urbanization • Many ethnic groups w/unique languages • Arab, Ashanti, Bantu, Swahili groups • Three major religions: • Christianity, Islam, Traditional Beliefs

  9. Climate & Health • Disease-carrying insects • Malaria • Tsetse fly • River blindness • Unclean water • Parasites • Diarrheal diseases • Hunger • Drought = no crops • Lack protein

  10. Activity 1 Map : • Label all nations • Color geographic regions • Make key on map

  11. closure • How do climate & environment impact Africans way of life

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