The Sahara Desert

1. The Sahara Desert By: Danielle Healy

2. How big is the Sahara? What percent of Africa does it cover • The Sahara is 3.3 million square miles. • The Sahara covers 25% of Africa.

3. What is the name of the tribe that lives in the Sahara? Describe some of their customs. • The tribe that is from Sahara is called Turayeg. • There the largest tribe from Sahara. They also trade salt.

4. List and describe a meal that they eat. • They drink milk produces from camels and goats. • They eat a thick crepe eaten with sauce of butter or dried tomatoes and onions. It’s usually severed with green tea.

5. List and briefly describe four animals that live in the Sahara? • Addax- the Sahara's largest indigenous mammal, the addax travels in small herds throughout the Western Sahara, Mauritania and Chad. A creature of the dunes, the addax rarely drinks water. Instead, it sucks moisture from the desert grasses and bushes that make up its daily food requirements.

6. Why is an oasis important? • An Oasis is important because an oasis can vary in size from about 2.5 acres for a tiny village to larger farm lands. At its hub is water, often in the form of natural springs, artesian wells or entire irrigation systems. About 75 percent of the Sahara's population lives in oases, which make up only a tiny 800 square miles of the desert's vast sea of sand and gravel? The date palm is most characteristic of the vegetation that flourishes there. Other typical food sources grown in Saharan oases include figs, peaches, citrus fruits, wheat and barley. The word "oasis" is believed to come from an ancient Egyptian word, "wash," meaning "fertile place in the desert."

7. List and describe three topographical features found in the Sahara. • Regs- These plains of sand and black, red or white gravel make up 70 percent of the Sahara. The Libyan reg stretches for 340,000 square miles; the Tanezrouft reg, to the west of the Ahaggar Mountains, stretches for 200,000 square miles. The remains of prehistoric seas and rivers, the regs are now nearly completely waterless. Plant life is sparse; animal life is mostly limited to rodents. • Chotts- Chotts are depressions that fill with salt once moisture from the Sahara's winter rains evaporates in the spring and summer. Large chotts occur throughout the northern Sahara. Key scenes from "The English Patient" and "Star Wars" were filmed in a large chott in western Tunisia called wChott el Djerid. • Wadis- Wadis are temporary water sources located primarily in the mountains and fed by rainfall. They are home to most of the Sahara's trees and large bushes.

8. What is the average temperature? • Sahara’s average tempters are 136 degrees .

9. Where and when was the highest temperature recorded? What was it? • On September 13, 1922 it temperature was 109 degrees in the Sahara Desert.

10. How much rainfall does the Sahara receive a year? • More than 75% of rain fall a year.

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

12. What is the climate of the Sahara like? • The climate is like Hot, Dry, and Humid.

13. The End • I hope you enjoyed my slide show By: Danielle Healy