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Africa Geography

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Africa is the second largest continent and the second largest population out of all the continents. Africa covers about a fifth of the earth’s land. For millions of years the colossal continents have separated. This change to the earth is now referred as the continental drift.
In Africa the hippopotamus is the killer animal, it kills more humans than a lion or any other massive animal. Most male hippos lie against the end of the river banks. Most females just anticipate any type of threat against the young. Africa is the hottest continents on Earth and Cairo is the continent's largest city. It has the temperature of staying above 100 degrees fahrenheit. African women make most of the jewelry and some materials they use in grass, egg shells, …show more content…

Over 1,270 humongous dams have been made along the continents variety of rivers. Lake Victoria is the largest river located in Africa and it is also the second freshwater in the entire world. Most Africans play sports such as boxing, track, rugby, cricket, and football known as (soccer). In Africa they speak over 2,000 different languages that they speak. Most Africans are either a Christian or Islam. Abrahamic religions are widespread across Africa. 41% of children in Africa are going through child labour. People in Africa have to haul about 3.6 miles for a bucket of water. South Africa is called the rainbow nation because it has 11 official …show more content…

South Africa is the world's 24th nation with the highest population. The largest animal in Africa is the elephant and the elephant is endangered for that 100 elephants are killed a day. The tallest animal is the giraffe and it is not one of the endangered animals. Also sadly African lions are endangered to. People kill animals for fur, to make blankets, architects, and plenty more. From all over the world over 3,000 children die from diseases. The order from the 7 continents from greatest to least is Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica. South Africa is 6 hours ahead of Virginia. Most African Americans have short hair because during school there hair won't be a distraction but, most girls don't really care about their hair because at a young age they don't care about beauty either. They will also get hot when the temperature gets really high and they will have a lot of hair to deal

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