The Sahara Desert is the world's largest hot desert, located in North Africa. The Sahara covers large parts of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania ,Mali, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. Its surface area of 9,400,000 square kilometres (3,630,000 square miles) including the Libyan Desert and covers about 1/4 of the African continent.It is comparable to the respective land areas of China or the United States. The Sahara is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the western edge
The Sahara Desert is the world's largest hot desert, located in North Africa. The Sahara covers large parts of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania ,Mali, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. Its surface area of 9,400,000 square kilometres (3,630,000 square miles) including the Libyan Desert and covers about 1/4 of the African continent.It is comparable to the respective land areas of China or the United States. The Sahara is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the western edge
Zaki Araujo Mr. Jacob Geography 7 The Sahara Desert Africa is one of the largest continents, Africa is also home to the largest desert in the world, the Sahara desert. The Sahara Desert is known for its harsh and brutal environment and in fact, it is one of the harshest environments. Due to its very harsh environments, it is near to impossible to live there. There are few resources that make survival in the Sahara possible. Things such as oases, rain, rivers, plants, and animals make it possible
links to the climate in the Sahara desert because of the prevailing wind, which blows from the northeast towards the equator throughout the year, this accounts for the deserts aridness. When the wind moves southwestward, the air warms which results in it releases rainfall because the humidity. The Biotic process is linked with the sahara desert because Desert animals have made adaptations as well as plants, even their features and behavior have adapted to the Sahara Deserts conditions. Some examples
Rulers want beautiful objects to celebrate their high position. Potters, weavers, blacksmiths, leather workers, and others were often highly skilled. West Africa is very beautiful. Benin makes really nice things for the king. Metal workers weld brass and use it in copper that has been mined. Come see it! West Africans have musicians and poets for their ceremonies and entertainment. The artists and musicians can’t be missed! Woodworkers and craftsmen are in such high demand. They work hard so
travel writing are by no means synonymous. Infamous for her 1920s desert romances, Hull’s 1926 travelogue of her journey in Algeria, Camping in the Sahara, goes virtually unmentioned in accounts of her life and work. Better known for her scandalous desert romances of the “rape-cum-redemption in the Sahara” style (Melman 1988, 91), many of the contemporary (and often scathing) reviews of her fiction assumed Hull’s representations of the Sahara and its inhabitants to be nothing more than escapist fantasy
North Africa has three geographic features these include the following the Sahara, the Atlas Mountains in the west, and the final one being the Nile and Delta river in the east. The Atlas Mountains contains a multitude of clusters as well as ranges, ridges, plateaus, and basins. These basins stretch well over more than 1,200 miles along the North African coast from the southwestern Morocco across Algeria all the way towards northeastern Tunisia. North Africa has one of the tallest peaks which is
plains of sand and gravel that cover over 70 per cent of the Sahara. Regs are waterless remains of prehistoric sea beds. Hamadas These are elevated plateaus that can reach heights up to 3,353 m. Along with Ethiopian Highlands, other mountains include in this category are Tibesti Mountain and the Ahaggar Mountains. The Sahel It is a narrow band of flat, semi-arid and barren land. The Sahel forms a transition zone between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannahs in the south. It stretches up
trek or opt for the nomadic comfort of a camp tent. Whether you plan trekking in Morocco in the summer or the winter, our team of seasoned trekkers has what it takes to take you where you want to be with the highest level of security and comfort. Sahara Desert
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra-”land of the Afri” for the northern part of the continent. Africa was discovered by Henry the Navigator during the Age of Discovery in the 15th century. Africa before the Iron Age, the earliest indigenous people, the San, were nomadic and they survived by hunting and gathering. “Many scientists think they preferred the lives of the nomads