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occur frequently. As well as this, there are very few nutritional substances for survival. However, the biggest challenge for living things in the hot desert is most likely the dry weather and lack of rain. The annual rainfall is below 25 mm in the Sahara Desert, the world’s biggest desert, compared with the Amazon rainforest which has an average precipitation of 1250 to

Western Sahara is located on the northwest coast of Africa bordered by Morocco, Mauritania, and Algeria. It is mostly part of the Sahara desert. Western Sahara is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world. Their climate is hot, dry desert, rain is rare, the cold offshore air currents produces fog and heavy dew. Due to the fact that The Western Sahara is mostly desert, we can not build a highway through here, but it could be built on the coast. Western Sahara’s territory is 85% under

Of China was erected to stop hostile armies from invading the landscape. Now, Africa's farmlands are under attack from a far worse invader: the Sahara Desert. Twenty nations are coming together in an effort to plant a living defense system made of trees, called, the Great Green Wall of Africa. download As the world's largest non-polar desert, the Sahara is actually expanding. It is estimated that, by 2025, two-thirds of Africa's arable land will be covered in sand. The danger of these projections

When people think of Africa, geographically, they only think about Africa after the Sahara desert. In their mental map of Africa, a lot of people utterly omit North Africa ( which includes countries like Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt). The reason why that is that through writings and many theories, Europeans have basically divided Africa into two parts: Hamitic and Negroid. The theories that they developed about North Africa being historically separate from the rest of Africa have led to the ideas

eyes in view. The Tuareg people are a desert tribe which inhabits the Sahara desert (LONGITUDE 23.4162* N LATITUDE 25.6628 E), they are often recognized for their “Blue Men of the Desert” as their face is often stained blue from their veils which are dyed indigo. The Arabic meaning of Tuareg is “God-forsaken people” and this seems quite fitting for a people that has learnt to live and survive in such harsh conditions of the Sahara Desert. Tuareg or “Berbers” refer to themselves as free men and have

Measurement Topic 2: Africa South of the Sahara Learning Target 2: Geography of Africa South of the Sahara Step 2: Cultural geography of Africa South of the Sahara Read the attached document on the cultural features of Africa South of the Sahara to answer the following questions: How has the physical environment of the Sahel influenced ways of life in this subregion? The Sahel, the land of Africa beneath the Sahara, is filled with large water systems and a range of elevated lands: plateaus

Sahara Desert The Sahara Desert is the world's largest desert area. The word Sahara comes from the Arabic word sahra', meaning desert. It extends from the Africa's Atlantic Ocean side to the Red Sea and consists of the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan. It is about 5,200 miles long. Overall, the Sahara Desert covers 3,500,000 square miles. The geography of the desert is varied. In the west, the Sahara is rocky with varied elevation

Why were these North African civilizations prosperous? Why between the Mediterranean and the Sahara? What is a plateau? *The Sahara covers ¼ of Africa! *AFRICA IS A CONTINENT !!! *Sahel is a word for shore (in Arabic) which are lands surrounding the Sahara *Jungle is a place with dense plants and trees which prevents sunlight from reaching through the tall trees onto the forest floor Lake Victoria that is in east central Africa is one of the world’s biggest lakes

After the linen was changed, they all sat in the room talking as though Sahara could talk back to them or with them. Kenya and Ebony picked up from where they left off on the telephone, they started reminiscing again. Kenya then spoke about how she met Sahara in a foster home in Queens, NY. How they were close from day one, she spoke about how they were four years old and scared to death to live amongst strangers

the new kingdoms replaced the old ones, they experienced a vast change. Conquest and warfare along caused these transformations to occur. It was also influenced by the patterns of trade. The earliest civilizations were in West Africa south of the Sahara desert. These civilisations grew at a time when most of the outside countries were experiencing The Dark Age. “After the fall of the Western half of the Roman Empire around