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sahara - Coggle Diagram
sahara
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opptunites
Tourism:
9 million tourists visit Egyptian pyramids each year; Star Wars set in Tunisia. 10% workforce work in tourisum
Energy:
Morocco built world’s largest solar panel farm
(35% of energy is renewable). Tunisia building one that
Farming:
130,000 hectares of farmland across Sahara;
140,000 camels bred each year; Egypt largest producer
mining
Contributes 35% of Morocco’s exports (phosphate); Algeria has large reserves of iron, oil and gas. Mauritania have gold.
adaptations
plant
Camel: Thick fur and underwool, insulates during -4 temperatures and shade in 40. Fat stored in humps to reserve energy due to lack of food in hot climate
animal
Cacti: wide shallow roots absorb infrequent rain (25mm) or long tap roots (7-10m long) reach underground aquifers Store water in stems and have pleats to expand to store water
location
Stretches 3,000 miles across 11 countries innorth Africa e.g Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt. Covers 31% of Africa
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