How big is the Sahara?

1. How big is the Sahara? • 25%, 1200 miles 1931 kilo meters

2. What is the name of the tribe that lives in the Sahara? • Arabs, Berbers, Bedouins, Fulani, Nubians and Tuareg. The Taureg cuisine is as austere as its desert surroundings. Milk and its products from camels and goats are the normal meals. For special meals couscous is served.

3. List and describe a meal that they eat • They eat a meal called taguella, a thick crepe eaten with a sauce or dried tomatoes and onions, Usually completed with green tea.

4. List and describe 4 animals that live in the Sahara • Elephants, large gray animals • Lions, strong animals with a hair vane • Giraffes, tall animals with long necks • Snakes, long or short animals with no arms and legs

5. What is a oasis important There water comes from a oasis and also from there wells.

6. List and describe 3 topographical features found in the Sahara • Mostly made up of flat planes of rock gravel and sand • The Nile river covers 4,000 miles of the Ethiopian highlands to the Mediterranean Sea • Erage is the sand seas

7. What is the average temperature? 109

8. Where and when was the highest temperature recorded? What was it? • El Aziza on September 13th, 1922 and 136 degrees

9. How much rainfall does the Sahara receive a year? 75% of the Sahara receives less than 4 inches of rain

10. The Sahara engulfs or touches 11 countries. List them. Algeria Mauritani a Chad Morocco Egypt Niger Libya Sudan Mali Tunisia Western Sahara

11. What is the climate of the Sahara like? It is usually always hot but ounce a year it gets colder but not lower than 80 degrees.