What are the benefits of living on the African coastline?

Answer 1

1.people don't realise that they are flood plains 2.they are cheap houses 3.sometimes there are nice views

Answer 2

When a river floods, it deposits soils and clays which are very rich in nutrients and create much better growing conditions for crops and food for agriculture. Living on a floodplain then takes advantage of these natural processes to use these in supplying more food for a population of people.

Answer 3

1. They lived there all there lives; personal preference to be with family.

2. River sediments from deposition provides fertile soil for agriculture.

3. Water is readily availble for agricultural and domestic use.

4. Flood-plains usually have flowing rivers therefore, rivers can be used as a form of transportation and/or leisure activities.

5. a reliable source of food ie fish

6. scenic beauty

Answer 4

1. For tourist attraction.

2. Source of food i.e fish.

3. Source of water.

4. Ancestors have lived there before and they want to continue living there so their tradition is not broken.

5. For fertile soil.

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A big problem in the UK is that developers have been allowed to build new estates on flood-plains for no good reason other than possibly lower land-purchase costs - people buy there without thinking, then complain about flooding and its consequences! if you look at many very old river-side villages and towns - anything from, say Mediaeval times onwards - you notice that the oldest buildings are all up on the valley sides or at least on higher ground within the flood-plain. The local builders knew from accumulated knowledge that the river might burst its banks every now and then.

Answer 5

Its better than Albuquerque an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a seacoast

Answer 6

Actually, i dont know