GEA 3600 Midterm: midterm exam review
13 Mar 2016
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The process in which the principle objecive is to improve peoples lives. Billions of years ago, the earth consisted of one super coninent pangea and before that rodinia. Theory that the earth consisted of plates that shit the earth"s surface relaive to each other. Major drainage basins: djouf, chad, congo, sudan, klahari. Major mountain ranges: atlas, ahaggar, guinea, ethiopian, ruwenzori, drakensberg: mt. Volcanic cone formed by upward thrust of coninental riting processes. Shiting coninental plates caused deep issures in eastern>>southern africa. Deep cleavages (some are up to 3000 t deep) No easy access from coasts to interior. Starts in guinea mountains, lows into sahara, then turns into atlanic. Provides irrigaion for coton and rice in mali. Flows from lake tana in the ethiopian highlands. The river provides support for agriculture for food and cash crops. Spills over victoria falls at 47 million gallons of water per minute. Hydroelectric power for energy and development in zambia and.
