1) Sub-Saharan Africa is dominated by huge plateaus, mountains, and valleys. The largest is the Sahara Desert located in northern Africa. 2) Major physical features include broad plateaus, steep escarpments along the edges of plateaus, rivers that plunge over escarpments forming waterfalls, and the Great Rift Valley that stretches over 3,500 miles. 3) Major water systems were influenced by ancient landforms and include lakes like Victoria, Tanganyika, Malawi, Volta, and Chad, as well as the great rivers Congo, Niger, and Zambezi, which provide hydroelectric power potential.

1. Sub-Saharan Africa Physical Geography

7. Can you guess where the Sahara Desert is located?

11. Escarpment

18. Drakensberg Mountains

19. Eastern Highlands Drakensberg Mountains Ruwenzori Mountains

20. Ruwenzori Mountains Snow clad peaks seem to float in the sky so Africans call them Mountains of the Moon

22. Mount Kenya

23. Mount Kilimanjaro

26. Great Rift Valley

27. Northern section of Great Rift Valley

31. Pangaea

39. Lake Malawi

41. Lake Chad Lake Volta Lake Malawi

44. The Congo River

47. Victoria Falls 350 Ft High