Africa rivers explanation and information

About AFRICA rivers

1. UAE SST BY - AARON JEEJO AREEKAL

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVE To learn about orange river To learn about nile river To learn about Great rift valley To learn about congo river To learn about sahara desert

3. ORANGE RIVER The Orange River a river in Southern Africa . It is the longest river in South Africa . With a total length of 2,432 km (1,511 mi), the Orange River Basin extends from Lesotho into South Africa and Namibia to the north. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean. The river forms part of the international borders between South Africa and Lesotho and between South Africa and Namibia, as well as several provincial borders within South Africa.

4. NILE RIVER The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered the longest river in the world, though this has been contested by research suggesting that the Amazon River is slightly longer.

5. GREAT RIFT VALLEY The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches , approximately 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, that runs from Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa . [1] While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in geology as it is considered an imprecise merging of separate though related rift and fault systems. Today, the term is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift , the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward across eastern Africa , and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into two new separate plates. Geologists generally refer to these incipient plates as the Nubian Plate and the Somali Plate .

6. CONGO RIVER The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the second largest river in the world by discharge volume, following only the Amazon. It is also the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths around 219.5 m

7. SAHARA DESERT The Sahara is a desert on the African continent. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres, it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic

8. WE COMPLETED OUR LEARNING OBJECTIVE

9. ASSESSMENT 1. The Congo River, formerly also known as the__________ 2. The Sahara is a desert on the African continent. With an area of_______kilometers

10. ANSWER 1.Zaire river 2.9,200,000