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What do you call a member of the nomadic Berber people of the Sahara?
A member of the nomadic Berber people of the Sahara is typically called a Tuareg.
What do you call the Sahara desert people?
Bedhouins
What did the Egyptians call the desert surrounding their country the?
The Sahara Desert
What is the enormous desert that stretches across North Africa?
The Sahara covers nearly all of the northern third of Africa. It is the second largest desert on earth and largest hot desert. By the way, the word Sahara means desert so to call it the Sahara Desert is a redundancy. It is simply called the Sahara.
What did ancient Egyptians call the desert?
The Sahara Desert
What location is the largest desert in the world?
Technically, the largest desert is actually the continent of Antarctica. In terms of what most people call the largest desert, that would be the Sahara.The largest desert in the world is not located in Africa, it is in Antarctica. The Sahara is the largest hotdesert in the world and located in Africa.
What is a example of human environment interaction in Sahara desert?
One would be helping a committee clean up pollution, taking in job inteviews and building houses. Thats what I would call human environmental interactions in the Sahara Desert. :)
Why did Hans vischer call a trade route death road?
Because it crossed 1500 miles of the Sahara Desert.
What was the largest desert in Africa?
Technically, the largest desert is actually the continent of Antarctica. In terms of what most people call the largest desert, that would be the Sahara.The largest desert in the world is not located in Africa, it is in Antarctica. The Sahara is the largest hotdesert in the world and located in Africa.
Why is the Sahel called a semi desert?
No. the area of Africa call "Sub-Saharan" is the whole area BELOW the Sahara desert (the largest desert in Africa), Most of "Sub-Saharan Africa" is savannah with a tropical belt at the equator.
What type of a desert is the Sahara?
The Sahara Desert is a hot, dry area covering most of North Africa.Because there is practically no rainfall, few plants can grow there and those that do are specialized for arid conditions. In some parts there are no plants at all. Occasional wet areas fed by underground springs support oases, where plants grow well and people can live all year long.In 1922 a temperature of 136° F (57.8°C) was recorded, making the Sahara the hottest desert in the world.It is also the biggest hot desert in the world. However, it is the second biggest desert, as Antarctica is the biggest desert (but a cold desert).Some parts of the Sahara are sandy with giant dunes, while other areas are gravel plains, rock plateaus and mountains (only 3/8th of the Sahara Desert is sand).it is an expanse of sand where almost nothing lives only a few organisms are capable of surviving there .Some of the sand dunes can reach 180 metres (590 ft in in heightThe climate of the Sahara has undergone enormous variation between wet and dry over the last few hundred thousand years.[11] During the last glacial period, the Sahara was even bigger than it is today, extending south beyond its current boundaries.[12] The end of the glacial period brought more rain to the Sahara, from about 8000 BC to 6000 BC, perhaps because of low pressure areas over the collapsing ice sheets to the north.[13]Once the ice sheets were gone, northern Sahara dried out. In the southern Sahara though, the drying trend was soon counteracted by the monsoon, which brought rain further north than it does today. The monsoon season is caused by heating of air over the land during summer. The hot air rises and pulls in cool, wet air from the ocean, which causes rain. Thus, though it seems counterintuitive, the Sahara was wetter when it received more insulation in the summer. This was caused by a stronger tilt in Earth's axis of orbit than today, and perihelion occurred at the end of July around 7000 BC.[14]By around 3400 BC, the monsoon retreated south to approximately where it is today,[15] leading to the gradual desertification of the Sahara.[16] The Sahara is now as dry as it was about 13,000 years ago.[11] These conditions are responsible for what has been called the Sahara pump theory.The Sahara has one of the harshest climates in the world. The prevailing north-easterly wind often causes sand storms and dust devils.[17] When this wind reaches the Mediterranean, it is known as sirocco and often reaches hurricane speeds in North Africa and southern Europe. Half of the Sahara receives less than 20 mm (0.79 in) of rain per year, and the rest receives up to 100 mm (3.9 in) per year.[18] The rainfall happens very rarely, but when it does it is usually torrential when it occurs after long dry periods.The southern boundary of the Sahara, as measured by rainfall, was observed to both advance and retreat between 1980 and 1990. As a result of drought in the Sahel, the southern boundary moved south 130 kilometres (81 mi) overall during that period.[19]Recent signals indicate that the Sahara and surrounding regions are greening because of increased rainfall. Satellite imaging shows extensive re greening of the Sahel between 1982 and 2002, and in both Eastern and Western Sahara a more than 20 year long trend of increased grazing areas and flourishing trees and shrubs has been observed
What do you call a group of people traveling together for safety in the desert?
nomads or a caravan
