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Year 8 · Geography · Africa or Asia · Lesson 1

Africa's physical and human geography

Africa's physical and human geography: 54 countries, biomes from rainforest to desert, the Nile, Kilimanjaro and the Rift Valley, the Sahel and desertification.

Whiteboard video lesson: Africa's physical and human geography

18-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Describe Africa's size and diversity
  • Locate and describe Africa's biomes
  • Name major physical features
  • Explain desertification in the Sahel
  • Avoid stereotypes with specific examples

The method

  1. Where is it?
  2. Physical features.
  3. Human features.
  4. Specific examples.

Key words: continent, biome, savanna, tropical rainforest, Sahara, Sahel, desertification.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

How many countries are there in Africa?

  1. Step 1: Over fifty

Answer: 54

Question 2

Roughly how many people live in Africa?

  1. Step 1: Over a billion

Answer: Over 1.4 billion

Question 3

What is the largest hot desert in the world?

  1. Step 1: In North Africa

Answer: The Sahara