Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Nile River
- Suez Canal
- Longest ship canal
- Separates Asia from Africa
- Cuts through Europe
- Links the Mediterranean sea and the Red sea
- Aswan Dam
- Longest dam in the world
- Disadvantages - lost nutrients, 120,000 people had to migrate, polluted by fertilizer
- Took 10 years to build
- Cost 1 billion dollars
- Made of Earth and rock
- Advantages - Electrical power and fishing industry
- It
is
4160
miles
long
- Has 6 waterfalls
- Deserts East to west
- Nickname is the giver of life
- Flows from South to North
- To predict the floods they developed the solar calender
- Every mid July it floods leaving rich fertile soil