AFRICA

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AFRICA
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THE LAND OF CONTRAST

• Deserts
• Rain forests
• Orchards
• Grasslands
• High mountains
• Deep canyons

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Second largest continentin the world.
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Northern Coast

• Fruit orchards
• Olive groves
• Farms
• Hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters
• There are beaches

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Sahara Desert

• Worlds largest desert
• Scorching hot days and chilly nights
• Almost never rains
• Bare, rocky ground
• Enormous shifting sand dunes

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Grassland

• Like the prairies of North America
• Zebras, lions, elephants, giraffes, antelopes,
  rhinoceroses, leopards, and hyenas
• Warm all year round with moderate rain fall

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Tropical Rain Forest

• Always hot and it rains every day
• Trees so thick sun cannot reach the ground
• Many endangered animals live here.

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Rivers

• Nile -- Longest river in the world
• Congo
• Niger
• Orange
• Zambezi -- Victoria Falls (largest waterfall in
  the world)

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