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Nov.1,2010Many countries now open up large tracts of land for national parks, sanctuaries or forest reserves. These parks, only a few large that can be called from outside of the ecosystem, the majority is used for large mammals live. In East Africa there are sanctuaries of birds and marine organisms. Vegetation in protected areas are [...]
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Africa is the vast amount of wildlife species and is known for large ungulates (about 90 kinds), and freshwater fish (2,000 species) are more than other continents.
Mammal
The main group of herbivorous animals, antelope in Africa, belongs to Bovidae (Bovidae) 4 under the subfamily. The first subfamily is like cattle Bovinae (cattle), this subfamily is further [...]
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The growth of plants in Africa rainfall, air temperature, geology and soil types such as the direct effects of the interaction; also fire by accident, human cultivation, grazing, livestock grazing and other further cuts. All of Africa’s total land area, forests account for about 1 / 5; forest areas, bush, grassland and forest, etc. about [...]
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Africa’s climate greatly by its location across the equator of. Temperatures in tropical areas north and south throughout the year most of the time are high, but the height of mountains and coastal zones, ocean currents affect the temperature can be eased, for example, the cool Benguela Current (southwest) and the warm Mozambique Current (SE) [...]
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Overall, the continent’s soil can be divided into 5 or 6 categories. The quality of which desert soil, chestnut soil edge of the desert type of brown soil, chernozem-like soils (dark, rich soil humus and carbonate), which can be found in the soil from the Sudan Xi to the Niger River to the middle bend [...]
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Mainly by the Nile River in Africa (Equatorial north) and the Congo River (Central Africa) dominated basin, a total of irrigation in Africa nearly 1 / 4 of the land area. Between two major rivers in the south of the boundary between a large freshwater lake. Covered the islands of Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest [...]
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Location
East Africa is located in the southwest of the Eastern Hemisphere, north and south across the equator, stretching from north-western parts of the Western Hemisphere. East near the Indian Ocean, west Atlantic, north across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean and across Europe, Dongbei Yu to narrow the Red Sea and the Suez Canal [...]
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Causes
From the origin point of view, it is more than ten million before breaking the crust formed by a dramatic fall of the fault zone, seafloor spreading — according to the theory of plate tectonics, that the world is the fault zone where land mass split, the East African Rift Valley is the upwelling of [...]
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Natural Resources
Africa’s rich mineral resources, not only variety, but also large reserves. Currently known oil, copper, gold, diamond, bauxite, phosphate, niobium and cobalt reserves in the world, a large proportion of both. Oil is mainly distributed in North Africa and the Atlantic Coast States, Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria is Africa’s major oil producer and exporter. [...]
Small islands along the coast of Africa, most of them very small, the area of the island only 2% of the continent-wide area. South Mainland North width narrow, like a scalene triangle, flat coast, less the Gulf and Peninsula. A plateau throughout the continent, with an average elevation of 750 meters. Largely on the Congo [...]