Geography Of Africa Research Paper

Africa is a huge continent land mass that is” four times the size of the United States”, and that is “12 million square miles that is larger than North America”(Collins, Burns 7).Africa is filled deserts, savanna, mountains, mediterranean, rainforests, prairie grassland and vast forests. Through all this topical geography Africa does have very many environmental and health issues. In the beginning when Africa was becoming a continent it was”punctuated by every geographical and geological feature from high mountains to arid deserts”(Collins, Burns 21). The native people depend on their diverse environment to survive. Natives at first were spread out in few numbers in contrast to the size of Africa, and were few in number. When the climate, land, and natives had plenty of food, population increased significantly. The people later became more colonized and migrated to more abundant areas of land. Africans who were sent off to …show more content…
Africa does produce a lot of crops such as bananas, cassava, maiz, sorghum, millet, guinea rice, yams. Even though Africa later one began to produce more crops it does face many environmental issues such as desertification, and deforestation. Africa receives huge rainfalls for the tropical forests, but natives chop down the forest in order to grow their food for survival. This makes the environment worse as it ruins the are for animals to live in. Also Kalahari Desert as well as the Sahara Desert and Sahel expand rapidly because desertification is an issue where areas that are not typically deserts are now transformed into deserts as this problems continues to grow every year especially now in more recent years. This problem is because of animals that graze in areas just outside of desert region and natives who do not know to correctly grow crops. When this happens the land is left to die by the intense heat and ultimately becomes