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
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This archive file of GLG 220 Week 4 Discussion Questions shows the Solutions to the following problems: DQ 1: 1. How can an observer experience two unequal high tides during a day? 2. What is the composition of sea water? What does salinity mean? 3. Beach erosion is related to natural process such as long shore current. How is beach erosion also related to human activity? 4. How do oceans regulate climate? DQ 2: 1. The Arizona cities of Flagstaff and Phoenix are relatively close to one another
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ESCI 118 – Physical Geography Citrus College Chapter 17 – Solution Processes and Karst Topography 1. How does carbonic acid form? It forms when water and carbon dioxide combine and react. 2. What is meant by dissolution? Dissolution is the action of being dissolved. 3. What kinds of rock are most susceptible to solution processes? Why? Limestone and dolomite are most susceptible to solution processes because the water‚ which is slightly acidic
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James Davis Professor Pope/GLY 101 March 26‚ 2014 Research Paper Sahara Desert Sahara Desert is the world’s largest desert. fahsdf asdfjk asdfjas dfasdkfj afoiwehfa djfaiweofj asdkfThe eastern Sahara is the driest region on Earth‚ where the received solar radiation is capable of evaporating over 200-times the amount of rainfall. It is characterized by a vegetation-free expanse of sandstone in the south and a limestone plateau in the north‚ with numerous sand sheets and sand dunes in numerous
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The Sahara Desert is located in the northern portion of Africa and covers over 3‚500‚000 square miles (9‚000‚000 sq km) or roughly 10% of the continent (image). It is bounded in the east by the Red Sea and it stretches west to the Atlantic Ocean. To the north‚ the Sahara Desert’s northern boundary is the Mediterranean Sea‚ while in the south it ends at the Sahel‚ an area where the desert landscape transforms into a semi-arid tropical savanna. Since the Sahara Desert makes up nearly 10% of the African
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Sahara desert General facts: Largest Desert in the world 10 percent of the African continent‚ 5000 years ago had a significantly larger mammal population‚ due to it getting dryer and over hunting in the last 100 years‚ the mammals are near extinction in the sahara. Intro: Definition of desert: “a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all” Deserts cover about one fifth of our planet‚ and are caused by extremely
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The Desert Biome Natashia Granger Bio/101 The Desert The desert is a dry barren area of land; it is in the Southwestern United States or areas of extreme heat and dryness. Deserts characteristically receive less than ten inches of precipitation a year. About one fifth of Earth’s surface is desert. Desert can be hot or cold
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Australian Desert 1. The Tropic of Capricorn passes thru the center of Australia. This means the country lies close enough to trade wind latitudes for the prevailing winds to be from the southeast. These bring maritime conditions‚ with abundant rain‚ to the coast of New South Wales and Queensland. 2. Inland lies the Great Dividing Range‚ a mountain range running the length of the country parallel to the east coast. 3. Lands to the west of the mountains lie in a rain shadow. 4. 40% of Australia’s
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Desert Marcus Green SCI/230 11/11/2012 Yasmin Henry Desert biomes can be defined as sandy regions that have very little rainfall as less than 50 cm a year with extreme temperatures and very scare vegetation. The fact that deserts are so dry the temperatures can change drastically‚ during the day temperatures can be as hot as 32 degrees Celsius‚ but at night temperatures can drop as low as -4 degrees Celsius because when the sun goes down there is no moisture in the air to trap the heat
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understanding of glaciers and how they can support and sustain many communities around the world and the connection to global warming. What really caught my attention when the clips also tells you that the ice is trans-parent and reflects blue light and absorbs all other colors. Yet it tell you about other colors you only see the blue ice. The park shows you Icebergs that looks like mountains and the part of the park that trees is still there and how
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