sandy desert at the north and a lake at the south named Lake Chad. Lake Chad has the largest wetlands in the whole Africa. Chad is an open place and it has over 200 groups that lives inside its borders 3. Niger river - The Niger River is a key point in West Africa it runs all the way through the country and it is 2,600 miles in length. This river borders with the cities Benin and also Nigeria. It is the third largest river in Africa trailing behind the Congo and the Nile River. The source of where
The red wolves are an endangered species. Right now they are only 45-60 left the wild. If people don't do something soon they might become completely extinct. Red wolves are very similar to the coyotes. As their name name suggests the have red coat but also a little brown mixed into it. They are the smaller and leaner version of their cousin, the grey wolf. They are native to the southeast region of North America. Red wolves are mostly found in forest and swamps but can survive mostly anywhere
Oklahoma. In the beginning of the tribe they lived southern Oklahoma and northern Texas, but after Europeans arrived, population pressures forced them further north into Kansas, where the city of Wichita is named for them. In 1700 they controlled northern texas and were involved in trade with other southern plains indians on both sides of the Red River and as far south as Waco. Most Wichita people are living in Oklahoma today. The Wichita spoke their Native Wichita language. Although they spoke their Native
Environment KLGO is a part of the North American Northwest Coast environmental region, also known to geographers and geologists as Cascadia (Ames and Maschner 1999). The park maintains ecological importance. Lynn Canal is a saltwater fjord which pierces deep into the heart of the Coast Mountains. The Taiya and Skagway valleys provide short pathways to glacier-free mountain passes connecting to the continental interior. KLGO remains the northernmost and furthest inland conduit for ecological exchange
knoll rise out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range” (Momaday 27). The old landmark known by the Kiowas as Rainy Mountain. Kiowas are a traditional Native American Tribe, their history, culture and beliefs all hold great meaning. At the beginning of the twenty-first century the Kiowas tribe remained one of Oklahoma’s most vital American Indian tribes. Leaving their ancestral homelands near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River of Western Montana in the late seventeenth
Euphrates river. It’s part of the Syrian desert, which also covers parts of Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The region, thinly dispersed by pastoral nomads has a wide stony plain with rare sandy stretches. There is a very stretched out form of wadis from the border to the Euphrates. Some of the valleys are up to 400 km long, and during the winter rains, they carry brief but heavy floods. The second major zone, is the rolling uplands. This zone is located between the Tigris, north of Samarra
On the Mississippi River about three hundred miles up from the mouth, there is a navigation lock that allows ship to drop out of the river. In open resistance of nature they can descend as much as thirty-three feet, then go to the west or south. This suggests a relationship between a river and adjacent terrain. Cajun country is the adjacent terrain. The apex of the French Acadian world, forms a triangle in southern Louisiana, its base the Gulf Coast from the mouth of the Mississippi just about to
Over many years there has been controversies among farmers in North Dakota about things that may or may not harm the soil. Such as Drain Tile, shelterbelts, soil salinity, soil compaction, soil erosion, and ect. First discussion is on drain tile. Farmers in the red river valley are in controversy over if it is or isn’t but according to facts it is actually better for the soil and for farmers due to they can get in the fields faster,get crops and at the same time control the water table. With
ROAD The Silk Road is a route that caravans traveled in the ancient times from the Middle East to the Far East by land, sea and rivers and began to be used around 100 BC during the Chinese Emperor Vuu’s reign. On the Chinese territory, the road was about 6000 kilometers long and built upon the Persian Royal Road, which began from today’s Iranian town Ectaban, in the north-west of Iran and led to Smyrna (today’s Izmir). The Persian Royal Road that used to be managed by the Achaemenid dynasty until
ABORIGINAL AREA Approximately 700 BC, the Osage tribe started in the Ohio and Mississippi river valley (extending into present-day Kentucky). The Osage Tribe has been in North America for thousands of years, but French explorers first discovered them around 1675. It is thought that they are descendants of various cultures of indigenous people. After the 16th century, the tribe migrated west of the Mississippi when wars with the Iroquois tribe over hunting lands occurred. The word Osage is a French