Geography: The Sahara Desert

The Sahara Desert

The Sahara is a very well known desert, with biodiversities, different types of climates and many facts that are extraordinary. It is in the African continent and it takes a big part of it. It had many human huntings and it is also known a the Great Desert. The Sahara desert is the largest desert (non polar) in the world and years ago it was wetter than it is now. As mentioned the Sahara has a great biodiversity, means that there are many types of plants, animals and humans. It contains about five hundred different types of species "The flora of the central Sahara Desert is quite depauperate, and is estimated to include only 500 species", but the Sahara is immense so it is very low to the area. The plants

One fact is that it is not the largest desert in the world, it is the largest non polar desert in the world, because the largest desert in the world in the Antarctica "The largest desert in the world is…NOT the Sahara! It’s Antarctica! Still, the Sahara is pretty darn big, and getting bigger everyday. Just in the time since John Glenn first orbited the earth, it has expanded by another 250,000 sq mi to now cover over 3.6 million square miles." About 600 BC Sahara was a fertile land, it wasn 't always what it is today a gigantic place covered with ands and a few plants, but there are still parts of the Sahara that is fertile "As recently as 6,000 BC, grains and millet were grown across much of what is now the Sahara. In fact, prehistoric cave drawings have been discovered in parts of the Sahara that actually depict the flora as green and thriving." There are many other facts about Sahara, but this facts are amazing because it makes people think about what they have thought about Sahara, a big desert with

Some habitats at the Sahara are modified by the human and some trees were removed by nomads. The Sahara have a really small population which is less than two million, and it is a very unprotected area "The Sahara is a vast area of largely undisturbed habitat, principally sand and rock, but with small areas of permanent vegetation. The most degradation is found where water (oases, etc) is present. Here, habitatsmay be heavily altered by human activities." The rest of the population are mostly nomads, Tibbus, Moors and Tuaregs, and they survive by hunting and trading also known as the nomadic pastoralism. The Sahara desert or the Great Desert is full of interesting things, things that people may know or may not. It is a place that have many different types of animals and plants, and it is a home for some people. It may be for some people a beautiful place for others not and it is a desert full of history in it. It is gigantic and there is many facts that are incredible, that were already mentioned. A place full of sand,dunes, rocks, bugs and