FREE QUIZ BOWL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT YGK

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FREE QUIZ BOWL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT YGK

AFRICAN WATER EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -49 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: In Nigeria, it receives the Benue River, its main tributary. Its' massive namesake delta, known for its fisheries, wildlife, and petroleum, is an area of increasing social unrest.

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Niger Question 2: It is very shallow and has no outlet, so seasonal rainfall causes large fluctuations in its area.

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Lake Chad Question 3: Deforestation in Mozambique contributed to massive flooding of the Limpopo in 2000.

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Limpopo

Question 4: The lake covers the area where the Black Volta and White Volta rivers formerly converged.

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Lake Volta Question 5: Africa's second-largest lake by area, it is also the second-deepest in the world, surpassed only by Lake Baikal. Due its extreme depth (over 4,700 feet), it contains seven times as much water as Lake Victoria.

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Lake Tanganyika Question 6: one of the African Great Lakes. It is Africa's seventh-largest lake, and the world's twenty-seventh largest lake by volume. On the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Lake Albert Question 7: Namibia's Caprivi Strip was created to allow access this river. The Cabora Bassa & Kariba Dams form large lakes of the same name.

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Zambezi Question 8: The most spectacular feature of the Zambezi River; it is a over a mile wide and the largest waterfall by flow rate in Africa

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Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya (smoke that thunders) Question 9: Africa's third-longest, it flows in a great clockwise arc through Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria before entering the Gulf of Guinea.

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Niger Question 10: Boyoma Falls (formerly Stanley Falls), a section of seven cataracts near Kisangani, marks the beginning of this river's proper.

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Congo

Question 11: Weaving across southern Africa, it rises in eastern Angola, passes through Zambia, flows along the borders of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe, crosses through Mozambique, and enters the Indian Ocean's Mozambique Channel near Chinde.

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Zambezi Question 12: The upper part of this river's principal sources are the Lualaba, which rises in the DRC's Katanga province, and Zambia's Chambeshi River.

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Congo Question 13: The lake is at the intersection of Chad, Cameroon, Niger, & Nigeria, but most of the remaining water is in Chad & Cameroon.

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Lake Chad Question 14: Sea that separates Egypt and Saudi Arabia; thereby separating Africa from Asia.The sea that Moses separated according to the Old Testament of the Bible

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Red Sea Question 15: A bight off the West African coast, in the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea. It extends from the River Delta of the Niger in the north until it reaches Cape Lopez in Gabon.

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Bight of Biafra or the Bight of Bonny Question 16: Usually cited as the longest river in the world, it flows about 4,132 miles in a generally south-to-north direction from its headwaters in Burundi to Egypt's Mediterranean Sea coast, where it forms a prototypical delta.

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Nile Question 17: a major river in West Africa, running 1,130 kilometres from the Fouta Djallon plateau in north Guinea westward through Senegal and the Gambia to the Atlantic Ocean at the city of Banjul

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Gambia RIver

Question 18: To the east it is continued by the Bight of Bonny (formerly Bight of Biafra). The bight is part of the Gulf of Guinea. The Republic of Benin and this bight were both named after the Benin Empire.

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Bight of Benin Question 19: a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea on the northern coast of Libya; it is also known as Gulf of Sirte or the Great Sirte or Greater Syrtis

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Gulf of Sidra Question 20: The strait that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. It separates Spain from Morocco and thereby separates Europe from Africa

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Strait of Gibraltar Question 21: A bight on the western African coast that extends eastward for about 400 miles from Cape St. Paul to the Nun outlet of the Niger River.

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Bight of Benin Question 22: the longest river in South Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Orange River (or Gariep River, Groote River, Senqu River) Question 23: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness depicts the often cruel conditions this river's basin endured as a Belgian colony.

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Congo Question 24: Named by British explorer John Hanning Speke forthe then Queen, the introduction of the predatory Nile perch in the 1950s has caused environmental degradation, sending many native cichlid species into extinction.

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Lake Victoria