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The River Nile
This category contains questions and answers related to the River Nile. The Nile is located in Africa and is the longest river in the world.
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What did the egyptians use the Nile River for?
Quite apart from the obvious answer of anything that would hold water. They used buckets - by hand and attached to a type of waterwheel and they also dug irrigation canals, small ditches, to water crops etc.
but they used pipe too. THEY ALSO USED A SHADUF TO GET WATER FOR IRRIGATION OH SHNAP
What was the area next to the river nile called?
The area around the Nile is called called the fertile strip
How do humans survive by the river Nile?
Given the river is over 4,000 miles long, flows through a number of countries and millions live close by, it is impossible to give a definitive answer except to say that people's pollution is the cause of the biggest changes.
What food did the river Nile provide?
the Nile river provides fish and water for the crops that the people used for farming.
How did the Egyptians transport water from the Nile River and what tools did they use to do so?
One tool they used is a shadoof/shaduf.
They took the water from buckets and took it back home or where its destination is. They went back in forth until they had enough water.
What happens when the river Nile reaches the sea?
Some people drown because they "underestimate the power of denial".
Which city is located at the junction of the Blue and White Nile?
The White Nile and Blue Nile merge to form the river Nile near Khartoum, Sudan, at a place known as "al-Mogran".
When was the river Nile discovered?
It is not known when man first set eyes on the Nile but the link below will give you some information regarding European explorers.
What are the two main sources of the Nile river?
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2 differences between the river Thames and river Nile?
The Nile is about 4,132 miles long - the Thames is about 215 miles long. The Nile flows through jungle and desert - the Thames does not. Crocodiles live in the Nile - they do not live in the Thames.
How did the nile get its name?
Zambezi means "great river" in local dialect. Before the division of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, what is named Zambia today was called Northern Rhodesia. Zambia got its name from the river.
Is the river nile one of the biggest lakes in Africa?
No it is not, but which is actually the oldest is open to much debate.
The oldest river formed billions of years ago and the continents have been rearranged so many times since then that it is long gone (maybe even subducted into the mantle) and finding evidence of it is likely impossible.
Yes, the Nile river is famous because it is the world's longest river. Moreover, it is very important for the people who live near to it. The Nile is shared by eleven countries, namely, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt. The Nile is the primary water resource and life artery for Egypt and Sudan.
The Nile has two major tributaries, the White and the Blue Nile. The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa. It flows north through Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda and South Sudan. The Blue Nile is the source of most of the water and fertile soil. It begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia and flows into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers meet near Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.
What is the distance of the river nile?
The length of the Nile River is 7,088 km or 4,405 miles from its source in Nyungwe National Park of Rwanda to its mouth in Egypt.
Source: S. Liu, P. Lu, D. Liu, P. Jin, W. Wang, Pinpointing the sources and measuring the lengths of the principal rivers of the world, International Journal of Digital Earth, Volume 2, Issue 1 March 2009 , pages 80 - 87,DOI: 10.1080/17538940902746082
How do the Brahmaputra Ganges rivers affect life in India?
transmition of disease from one person to another
What are two examples of how the Nile shaped Ancient Egypt?
The Nile shaped ancient Egypt with its triangular shape,and its long river that is flowing across countries
What could the ancient eygptians have used the river nile for?
The Nile river was used for many things. Fertile Soil, water, fish, plants, and many more. The people in Egypt used these resources to survive.
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Name the largest river in Africa?
The longest river in Africa is the Nile River - 4135 miles.
It flows from south to north through Egypt and exits into the Mediterranean Sea at what is known as the Nile Delta; the Delta is a number of low lying exit points and not a single river mouth. The Delta covers an area of about 200km of coastline with the city of Alexandria on its western extremity.
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Like any other river, it flows downhill. Upper Egypt (south) has very high elevation and the Nile starts in Ethiopia which also has high elevation. The Nile flows down the river into Lower Egypt (north) and into the Mediterranean Sea. To be precise, the Nile starts in Burundi where its headwaters drains North through Rwanda, the Kagera river on the border of Rwanda-Tanzania and Tanzania Uganda, and into Lake Nyanza (a.k.a Victoria) which drains intop the Nile in Uganda
The problems river nile cause to Egypt?
"Environmental problems: Salinization of the Nile Delta. The ecology in and around the Nile changed a lot since the construction of the Aswan High Dam. The vegetation around the lake changed as a result of the change in water quality. In the Nile River itself, a lot of species of fish have disappeared, and the species that survived decreased in number"
-http://www.ywat.org/knowledgebase/riverbasins/af-nile.html
The main environmental problem being dealt with consisting of the Nile river, is the construction of the Aswan Dam. People fear it is too drastically changing the vegetation, fish, and animals around and in the river.
What creatures are in the River Nile?
There are numerous species of snake, some extremely venomous and deadly. These include the Black Mamba, the Egyptian Cobra, the Saw Scaled Viper, the Spitting Cobra, the Innes Cobra, the Horned Viper, the Burton's Carpet Viper etc.
Why could it be that crops are around the river Nile?
The river Nile (prior to the construction of the Aswan Dam) used to flood every year, depositing both water and silt on the land near the shore. This was a source of both irrigation and fertilization, by a means that was completely effortless for farmers; it just happened by itself. It was, therefore, very easy to farm in the vicinity of the Nile. Now the Nile is used to generate electricity instead, and does not flood.
