Question

In this country, elephants have expanded the Kitum Cave under Mount Elgon by scratching blocks of salt off its walls. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this East African country home to Mombasa.
ANSWER: Kenya [accept Mount Kenya]
[10h] Mount Elgon is home to a population of “swamp monkeys” named for a naturalist from this Italian family. Another member of this family names an African capital that was the de facto capital of Free France from 1940 to 1942.
ANSWER: de Brazza [accept Brazzaville or di Brazza or de Brazza e Cergneu or De Brazza’s monkey]
[10m] Mount Elgon has one of the largest of these depressions that form from the sinking of the ground into an empty magma chamber. Six nested examples of these features are present on Olympus Mons.
ANSWER: calderas [prompt on craters]
<Ganon Evans, Geography - World&gt; ~22990~ &lt;Editor: Michael Bentley>

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