i am doin a project on Africa
and i need some help as i dont undersatnd the words on
Wikipedia!!!
xx
2007-02-09 06:16:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Hiya!
A great website with easy to understand facts is
http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/africa/exhibit/facts/index.html
Also for fun stuff go on
http://pbskids.org/africa/
Hope they help and good luck with your project!
:)
2007-02-09 06:47:30 · answer #1 · answered by Miss. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populated continent, after Asia.
It is 30,221,532 km² in area.
It covers 6.0% of the Earth's total surface area.
Population of 900,000,000 (900 MILLION!!)
Contain 61 countires
14% of all the humans in the world live in Africa
Africa's largest country is Sudan
Smallest country is the Seychelles
Over 1000 languages spoken in Africa
Christianity and Islam are most popular Religions
2007-02-10 08:05:31 · answer #2 · answered by Emma C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
General Trivia:
If you are pining for waves, warm sands and palm trees, Transvaal Park is the place to go. This massive indoor water park, where the temperature is kept at a toasty 30 degrees Celsius year-round, lets you visit the tropics without ever leaving the city limits. Named after the former Boer Republic, the only problem you might encounter is that it is located in Moscow, Russia!
When Graça Machel married Nelson Mandela on 18 July 1998, she became the first woman in the world to have married the heads of state of two different countries. She was previously married to Samora Machel, the first president of Moçambique who was killed in a plane crash in 1986.
The 1995 Guiness Book of World Records lists the largest baked pizza on record was 37.4 meters in diameter (12,159 sq.ft.), in Norwood, South Africa December 8th 1990.
In November, 1967, a specimen of the African giant earthworm Microchaetus rappi measuring 11 inches in length and 21 inches when naturally extended was found on the road between Alice and King William’s Town, South Africa. The average length of this species, however, is 3’ 6” in length, and 6’ to 7’ when naturally extended.
Christiaan Barnard, at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, performed the first human heart transplant in the world in 1967.
African Black-footed penguins, although they cannot fly, can swim up to 25 miles per hour which is faster than the Atlantic
Bottlenosed dolphin, which can attain speeds of 18-23 mph.
More than 50% of the Paragliding world records have been set in South Africa.
The only street in the world to house two Nobel Peace Prize winners is in Soweto. Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu both have houses in Vilakazi Street, Orlando West.
The largest defeat ever suffered by a 'modern' army at the hands of native troops was Isandlwana in Southern Africa in the year 1879. The British army was fighting the Zulu empire and, during a battle between 1,400 British colonial forces armed with cannon and rifles and 30,000 Zulus armed with spears, the British lost.
Deaths on the British side were estimated to be approximately 1,000 soldiers mainly from the 24th Regiment (Foot) and 300 native allies. Zulu losses were thought to be about 3,000.
About one-third of the population of South Africa has illegal immigrant status - they're mostly from other African states.
The largest known butterfly is Queen Alexandra's Birdwing from New Guinea which has a wingspan of approximately 11 inches; the smallest butterfly, the Dwarf Blue from Africa has a wingspan of only one-half inch.
Residents of Piet Retief in Mpumalanga have broken the Guinness Book of World Records by building the biggest Easter egg in history, weighing just over 4000kg. It took four days and about 70 people to build a 1000 kg supporting steel structure for the egg at Van Riebeeck Park.
Four of the five fastest land animals live in Africa – the cheetah (70 miles per hour), wildebeest, lion, and Thomson's gazelle (all about 50 mph).
2007-02-09 14:27:13 · answer #3 · answered by Wildamberhoney 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know of a African tribe of Pigmy's called the Wherethehellarewe. They got this name because they live in long grass and have a habit of jumping up in the air to look for each other and can be heard shouting "Where the hell are we?"
2007-02-09 14:32:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hippopotamus attacks cause the most deaths in Africa.
2007-02-09 14:24:52 · answer #5 · answered by Daniel Y 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The weather for most african countries are hot as most of the continent is between the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn.
2007-02-09 17:32:13 · answer #6 · answered by NHL92 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't understand the words?
Either use a dictionary and increase your vocabulary or visit Merriam-Webster and use their on-line dictionary.
If I 'don't understand' a word, I look it up so I know exactly what it means and in which context to use it.
2007-02-10 09:23:13 · answer #7 · answered by Rob K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the lead singer of dragonforce is from south africa =D
2007-02-09 14:24:39 · answer #8 · answered by Gino R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes africa is very hot and is full of deserts and lizards and the people are all cannibals and it is very dry and is full of animals
2007-02-09 14:24:20 · answer #9 · answered by geoffreysmallman700@btinternet.c 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's alot of hungry people with AIDS.
2007-02-09 14:26:40 · answer #10 · answered by Patrick H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋