Exercise 3: Are the statements below true or false?
1) Africa is the largest continent in the
world.
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8) Most of Africa's large mammal species ( )
can be found in tropical rainforests.
2) The Red Sea is a body of water that
separates Africa from Europe.
( )
9) The rainforest of the Congo Basin is the ()
largest in the world.
3) The Sahara is Africa's largest
( )
geographic region.
10) Most of Africa's landscape consists of ( )
dry grasslands.
4) The Sahara is about the same size as the ( )
United States.
11) Most of Africa's savanna has been
destroyed to make space for farmlands.
I( )
5) The Sahel is a transition zone between a
desert and grasslands and rainforests.
( )
12) Many of Africa's Great Lakes were
formed by shifting plates of the earth's
( )
crust.
6) The Ethiopian Highlands and the Great
Rift Valley were formed by shifting tectonic
plates.
( )
13) The Nile River originates in the Great
Lakes region.
( )
7) Mount Kilimanjaro is part of the
Ethiopian Highlands.
( )
14) Lake Victoria is the largest lake in the
( )
world.