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🖨️ Africa geography worksheet (printable, with answers)

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  1. Which of these animals is the heaviest?

    • A. Lion
    • B. Common ostrich
    • C. Nile crocodile

  2. Which of these is a bird?

    • A. Gorilla
    • B. African penguin
    • C. Spotted hyena

  3. Which of these countries has the most people?

    • A. Tanzania
    • B. South Africa
    • C. Egypt

  4. Which of these animals runs the fastest?

    • A. Leopard
    • B. Giraffe
    • C. Cheetah

  5. Which of these is the oldest?

    • A. Cape Coast Castle
    • B. Fort Jesus
    • C. Church of St. George, Lalibela

  6. Which of these covers the largest area?

    • A. Maasai Mara
    • B. Ngorongoro Crater
    • C. Serengeti National Park

  7. Which of these is the furthest south?

    • A. Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro
    • B. Great Mosque of Djenné
    • C. Mount Kilimanjaro

  8. Which of these animals is endangered?

    • A. African elephant
    • B. Red fox
    • C. Fennec fox

  9. Morocco: which of these is closest to it?

    • A. Pyramids of Giza
    • B. Richat Structure
    • C. Leptis Magna

  10. Which of these buildings has the most floors?

    • A. Nabemba Tower
    • B. NECOM House
    • C. Ponte City Apartments

  11. Which of these is the deepest?

    • A. Lake Natron
    • B. Bonga oil field, Nigeria
    • C. Witwatersrand gold fields (Mponeng)

  12. Which of these waterfalls is the tallest?

    • A. Boali Falls
    • B. Victoria Falls
    • C. Murchison Falls

  13. Which of these was completed most recently?

    • A. Voortrekker Monument
    • B. Castle of Good Hope
    • C. Union Buildings

  14. Which of these animals runs the fastest?

    • A. Hippopotamus
    • B. Meerkat
    • C. White rhinoceros

  15. Which of these animals is endangered?

    • A. Chimpanzee
    • B. Wild boar
    • C. Blue wildebeest

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Answer key — Africa

  1. C. Nile crocodile (Lion (160 kg) · Common ostrich (100 kg) · Nile crocodile (300 kg))
    A mother Nile crocodile gently carries her newly hatched babies to the water in her jaws.
  2. B. African penguin
    It was nicknamed the "jackass penguin" because its call sounds like a braying donkey.
  3. C. Egypt (Tanzania (68.6 million) · South Africa (64 million) · Egypt (116.5 million))
  4. C. Cheetah (Leopard (58 km/h) · Giraffe (60 km/h) · Cheetah (100 km/h))
    Cheetahs cannot roar; they purr, chirp and hiss instead.
  5. C. Church of St. George, Lalibela (Cape Coast Castle (1653) · Fort Jesus (1593–1596) · Church of St. George, Lalibela (c. 1200))
    Lalibela has 11 churches carved out of solid rock.
  6. C. Serengeti National Park (Maasai Mara (1,510 km²) · Ngorongoro Crater (260 km²) · Serengeti National Park (14,800 km²))
    Every year more than a million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, travel in a great loop through the Serengeti and Kenya's Maasai Mara.
  7. C. Mount Kilimanjaro (Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro (6.8°N) · Great Mosque of Djenné (13.9°N) · Mount Kilimanjaro (3.1°S))
    The glaciers on its summit have shrunk by more than 80% in the last hundred years.
  8. A. African elephant
    An elephant's trunk has tens of thousands of muscles but no bones.
  9. B. Richat Structure (Pyramids of Giza (3,645 km) · Richat Structure (1,244 km) · Leptis Magna (2,022 km))
    Seen from space it looks like a giant bullseye, nicknamed the 'Eye of the Sahara'.
  10. C. Ponte City Apartments (Nabemba Tower (30) · NECOM House (32) · Ponte City Apartments (55))
    Its hollow core is open to the sky all the way to the bottom.
  11. C. Witwatersrand gold fields (Mponeng) (Lake Natron (3 m) · Bonga oil field, Nigeria (1,000 m) · Witwatersrand gold fields (Mponeng) (4,000 m))
    The 1886 gold rush here led to the founding of Johannesburg, and the Mponeng mine now reaches about 4 km underground.
  12. B. Victoria Falls (Boali Falls (50 m) · Victoria Falls (108 m) · Murchison Falls (43 m))
    The falls are about 1,708 m wide.
  13. A. Voortrekker Monument (Voortrekker Monument (1949) · Castle of Good Hope (1679) · Union Buildings (1913))
    At noon on 16 December a sunbeam through the roof lights up the cenotaph inside.
  14. C. White rhinoceros (Hippopotamus (30 km/h) · Meerkat (32 km/h) · White rhinoceros (50 km/h))
    It is a grazer that crops short grass with its wide, square lips.
  15. A. Chimpanzee
    Chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest living relatives, sharing about 98–99% of our DNA.