Southern Africa Geography

Countries

• Namibia

• Botswana

• Zimbabwe

• Mozambique

• Comoros

• Madagascar

• Swaziland

• South Africa

• Lesotho

Southern Africa is made up of

• Plateaus in Nambia

Drakensberg Mountain Range Dragon Mountains Southern African Plains Okavango River

• A plateau is an area made up of land that rises

• directly into the air from a narrow plain.

• An escarpment is the steep face at the edge of

• the plateau or other raised area.

• ~Both the mountains and the plains play important roles in Southern Africas geography.

• ~The mountains serve as borders between neighboring countries.

Can you guess what animals you might in the plains of Southern Africa?

Drakensberg Mountain Range are located in South Africa. Dragon Mountains

• Inyanga Mountains are located between Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

• Okavango

• Orange

• Limpopo

-Flows from Angola to a basin in Botswana -Has 19 waterfalls!

Climate and Vegetation

• Southern Africa also consist of:

• SAVANNAS

• And

• DESERTS

• And

• TROPICAL FORESTS

• A veld is an open grassland or savanna where short trees and shrubs grow.

Hold your horses

• Not all of Southern Africa is desert, Madagascar is in fact mostly tropical forest.

Deforestation is destroying many of the animals and forests in the tropical forests of Madagascar.

More natural resources

• Timber

• Hydroelectricity

• Irrigation

• BUT.

• Minerals are #1

South Africa South Africa, Botswana, Namibia

Coal Platinum Copper Uranium Iron Ore

• NEGATIVE

• Why is this ironic? (think about Central Africa)