South Chad Research Paper

Improved Essays
Chad has a variety of climate, mostly hot and tropical. The rainy season in the Southern Chad is from May to October, and June to September in the central, but the North does not rain often all year. The dry season in Chad is always windy, and the evenings are much cooler than the mornings. Chad is located in Central Africa, bordered by Libya to the North, by Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon to the west, by Central African Republic to the South, and by Sudan to the east. The terrain of Chad includes a wide and arid flatland in the center, desert in the North, mountains in the Northwest, and lowlands in the South. Natural disasters such as storms and floods often occurred in Chad due to heavy rains, dry season also leads to droughts in

Related Documents

  • Great Essays

    The Ju/’hoansi-!Kung of the Kalahari Desert Until about 10,000 years ago, everyone in the world subsisted by hunting and gathering wild foods. According to Richard Borshay Lee, hunter-gatherers used their knowledge of the land that surrounded them to exercise their variety of strategies of foraging for food, and their life necessities. Over the next thousand years, agriculture has replaced foraging as the main subsistence practice, but some hunter-gatherers lived on in isolated areas of the world. Richard Lee and Megan Biesele conducted a study in the early 1960s to describe the important features of one of the last standing foraging groups, known as the Ju/’hoansi-!Kung residing in the Kalahari Desert (Lee 109). Please reference figure 1…

    • 1469 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The U.S. Responsibilities of Issues in Liberia . Liberia is located in Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and is between Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone. It is a country of foreign companies owning most of its land and wealth. It was first settled in by Americo-Liberians in 1817. This was the first cause of conflict in Liberia.…

    • 633 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    New South Research Paper

    • 1077 Words
    • 5 Pages

    What was the idea of the New South and how successful was it? Cheyenne (Varner) Richardson The New South was a reconstruction to get the South back on its feet, economically speaking. Much of the area had been damaged in the war, down to whole cities being wiped out.…

    • 1077 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Darfur Research Paper

    • 657 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Luigi Zavala Ms. Underhill 6th Grade HELA 12 December 2016 A Modern Time Holocaust Have you ever heard of the horrific and terrifying Holocaust? Well, it was an event that happened over five years, and 17 million people were killed by Hitler.…

    • 657 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Liberia Research Paper

    • 975 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Liberia Liberia was created in 1820 when the United States negotiated the rights for their freed slaves to settle there. In 1847 the country was declared a republic and operated with similar political institutions as the US. Liberia has many problems that have come from the two civil wars that took place between 1989 and 1996 and between 1999 and 2003, poor government and mismanagement. As the poorest country in Africa, its standards of living need to be improved drastically. Liberia’s political, economic and social factors prevent it from improving its standards of living.…

    • 975 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ethiopia Research Paper

    • 455 Words
    • 2 Pages

    As the city of Axum became weaker, the Agaw people decided to rise and fill the role of power. They started to rule over Ethiopia as the Zagwe Dynasty. Around the 15th century, Ethiopia began to contact the European kingdoms to begin trading. The Ethiopian religion was a mixture of Christianity and Islam. In Ethiopia, there is castle that belonged to King Fasilides, which meant Ethiopia was a monarchy.…

    • 455 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Filled with savagery and brutality, leading to the ethnic cleansing of a poverty ridden community through the abusive use of power, place, and people and undocumented use of national resources for personal satisfaction, Sierra Leone is constantly fought over for the resources she holds. Many lobbyist groups exist who seek to control and address the policies about the abundant resources present in Sierra Leone, consequently the country is constantly crippling from within. To understand the inner reality of the diamond industry in Sierra Leone, there is a need to take a look back in its history. Sierra Leone was colonized by the English, in which, the De Beers Corporation controlled much of the diamond mining area in Sierra Leone. Despite gaining independence, the diamond sector was still controlled by the De Beers.…

    • 445 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The drought and the heat have created many natural disasters in…

    • 761 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Haiti Research Paper

    • 778 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Have you ever done research on a place that is new to you just to see what it is like before you get there? Maybe did some research just to know about it so you can completely understand the background of the place to discover certain places or things? Well, that is the story of what I did before going to Haiti. Just knowing that you have ethnicity in your bloodline just made me want to engage into learning about the island and culture. The saying goes know your roots and where you come from.…

    • 778 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Niger Introduction: Niger is a landlocked and developing country in western Africa, named after the Niger River and officially the Republic of Niger. It is bordered by Chad in the east, Burkina Faso and Mali in the west, Nigeria and Benin in the south and Algeria and Libya in the north. Niger covers a land area of 1,267,000 square kilometres and with estimated population of 11,666,000. History of Niger: Thousands of years ago, Niger had wet and favorable conditions for agriculture and livestock herding in a fertile grassland environment.…

    • 802 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Desertification in Lake Chad Desertification is occurring globally especially in the sub-Saharan desert. One of the biggest examples if what is happening is the disappearance of Lake Chad. Lake Chad is located on the border of 4 Sub-Saharan countries: Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon. It was one of the biggest bodies of water in all of Africa. Its disappearance will greatly impact the countries surrounding it as they depended very much on what the lake provided from water to fish.…

    • 329 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    1940-1970 Drought

    • 57 Words
    • 1 Pages

    Between wet and dry it's very dangerous. It rains and supports farming. After a few years it will experience a long drought which is no rain. Also people can starve, because of it raining so much. From 1940-1970 had above average rainfall.…

    • 57 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Droughts change the amount and pattern of certain diseases which makes it easy for certain diseases to spread at those moments. An example would be mosquitoes moving to new areas to breed because of the drought. They will seek a new breeding ground with water and might carry something like the West Nile Virus to then eventually pass it on to a human. So many different things can when an area is being exposed to a drought that Public Health will be pushed to do something about it and…

    • 1047 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Tropical rainy climate is a climate that have a lot of rain forest. In rain forest many days is rainy. And most areas is wet. In areas that have a tropical wet climate, many days are rainy, often with afternoon thunderstorms.…

    • 308 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Seleka Geos

    • 936 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Central African Republic’s environment consists of two major weather patterns that occur yearly. From the month 's March to October sometimes November, The CAR is receiving its annual rainfall. The maximum amount of precipitation reaches approximate 71 inches, which take place in the upper Ubangi region. Within the Karre Mountains, rainfall averages drop slightly to 59 inches in the southwestern regions of the country monsoons are common weather. These weather patterns are created by the moist savanna climate which prevails in the north and to the south is the equatorial forest.…

    • 936 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays