GEOGRAPHY
POLLUTION OF WATER RESOURCES
Man cannot survive without water. The low population densities in the desert natural region is because of the water deficiency which renders vast areas of land uninhabitable. The sources of ...
COASTAL FEATURES OF EROSION
1) Capes and bays: On exposed coasts, the continual action of waves on rocks of varying resistance causes the coastline to be eroded irregularly. This is particularly pronounced where hard ...
THE MECHANISM OF MARINE EROSION
The most powerful agents of marine erosion are waves. Their origin is due to the sweeping of winds over the water surface, which sets a series of undulating swells surging ...
THE ACTION OF WAVES, TIDES AND CURRENTS
The action of the wind passing over a stretch of sea causes waves to develop and when the waves reach the coast they cause erosion or deposition. Wind passing over ...
NIGERIA’S TRADE AND COMMERCE
Trade is the selling and buying of goods and services between areas and peoples. Trade can be local, interregional or international. Nigeria is involved in all these types of trade ...
RIVER REGIMES
The seasonal variation in the volume of water in a river is known as the regime. A knowledge of the regime of a river is important to man in controlling ...
GREAT CIRCLE ROUTES
Since the earth is spherical in shape, the shortest distance between any two points on the globe lies along its circumference. There are an infinite number of great circles of ...
LOCATION AND POLITICAL DIVISIONS OF AFRICA
Regional Geography Regional geography is usually defined as the study of the ways in which the combinations of environmental and human factors produce territories or regions with distinctive landscapes and ...
POWER SOURCES IN AFRICA
Energy/ Power Sources Africa has various sources of energy or power distributed unevenly over Africa. The main sources of power are Hydro-Electricity Power (HEP), coal, mineral oil, thermal power and ...
PRIMARY ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN AFRICA
Africa's primary economic activities depend essentially on primary activities, which are associated with the natural resources that abound in the continent. The main primary economic activities are mining, forest exploitation/lumbering, ...