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Most of Africa lies between two lines of latitude called the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. All the land between

these two lines is called the tropics.

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Capricorn

The climate in the tropics is divided into four different zones.

The first zone is called

equatorial, meaning near the equator.

Equatorial zone

Within this region, there are many large forests, which have so much rain a year that they are called

rain forests.

The second zone is called

the savanna

zone.

Savanna zone

The third climate zone is called

the desert zone.

Desert zone

The fourth climate zone is called the

Mediterranean zone. This type of climate has hot dry sunny

summers and moist warm winters. In northern Africa,

farmers grow many of the same corps that are grown in Europe.

Mediterranean zone

Africa has some high mountains. Mount Kilimanjaro is the fourth tallest mountain in

the world.

Great Rift Valley

The Great Rift

Valley is a 4,000

mile giant fault,

or break in the

earths crust. It extends from the

Red Sea to the

Zambezi River.

Africa also has some large rivers, the Nile, the Zaire, the Zambezi and the Niger River.

The Niger river is the longest river in western Africa and it flows across the savanna, through the rain forest and finally it ends in the Atlantic

ocean.