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The Sahara desert is very dry and hot the average temperature is 90 degrees farinheight. There is little rainfall there they usually get less the 8 inches a year. The Tuareg people are very different then those who live by the Nile. The people who live by the Nile are use to having water whenever they want and their animals can to. The Tuareg people have to learn to live without water for sometime. Their animals can go up to two weeks without food and water The people that live in the Sahara are trying to change their enviroment conditions by making dams that make a lake so they can use it for irrigation because the land there is very dry. In the Sahel all the vegitation is gone so wind can easily pick up top soil and take it somewhere else. that is a process called erosion. The animals in the Sahel are eating to much and making more and more deserts. This is the process of desertification



How is the savanna differnt from the Sahara? The Savanna is different form the Sahara in many ways.The Savanna is located in Southern Africa and the Sahara is in the Northern part.The Savanna has two different season. They have rainy seasons that happen for a couple months then dry season is the rest of the year.

How do both herbivores and carnivores depend on the savanna? The herbivores eat all the grass and then the carnivors eat the herbivors. It is all in the circle of life

Why are so many countries joining their national parks together? If they dont take their fences down the animals just run right through them. Since they take the fences they employ a lot more people in their National parks.

How are national parks sometimes a problem for people of the savanna? When farmers have crops in the National parks the animals run through it and destroy the crops. In what ways do they help people of the savanna?

How does sustainable development help people and animals in Kruger National Park in South Africa? They are making it where animals are in certain parts so they aren't getting into people crops. If the animals are in crops people usually shoot them so then the farmers crops are ok.

Describe characteristics of plant growth in the rain forest. All the plants and the animals living in the rain forest depend on each other. It is all like the circle of life. It seems like everything in Africa depends on each other.

Describe what you might see while walking in a rain forest. If you are walking in a rainforest you would probably see all different types of plants and animals. While you were walking in the rain forest it might be hard because sometimes there are a bunch of trees or weeds in the way. There is such a variety of plants and animals in the rainforest. There are over 8,000 different types of plants in the rainforest.

How might your skin feel? What might you hear? When you are walking in the rainforest you will feel lots of plants as your walking. When you are just trying to walk a alittle ways it could take a long time because you have to clear a path. Also when your walking you will be getting attacked by all sorts of bugs. The bugs will bite you and you have the posibility of getting sick.

Why are chimpanzees becoming endangered? Chimpanzees are becoming dangered in all sorts of ways. The chimpanzees are getting hunted for their meat. The people that hunt chimpanzees are called poachers. Poachers are people who hunt animals when its illegal. Chimpanzees are also becoming endangered because farmers are ruining their habitat

How are the Baka people helping themselves and areas of the rain forest at the same time?

In what ways is the Congo River important to the many people living there?

After writing answers to the above questions, choose an endangered animal in the African rain forest, such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, or elephant. Find out why your particular animal is endangered, and what efforts, if any, are being made to help. Also add your opinion on what steps would improve the situation.

Write several paragraphs about your endangered animal.