Zambezi River - Earths Great Rivers

Documentary topic: Water, Rivers, Africa

24 question and answer sheet to accompany the BBC documentary Earth’s Greatest Rivers 2, episode 1, Zambezi River. Documentary follows the river’s course from source to mouth and looks at how animal and human life depends on the river.

The worksheet has 24 questions that cover the full 50 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers. There is a differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic. Designed for study alongside rivers unit, but equally could be used for students as part of a place based study in Southern Africa.

Topics include:

• Fact file on the Zambezi
• upper, middle and lower course characteristics
• Human activity along the river
• Flooding
• Conservation and management

Downloaded materials include all sheets in both Word and PDF formats.

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