EGYPT GEOGRAPHY

TEMPERATURE

• Days are hot nights are cold
• Summer lasts May to October and winter starts November to April
• In winter it can be around 70 degrees F in the morning and afternoon
• At night in the winter it can be around 49 degrees
• In the summer the temperature can reach as high as 112 degrees F

RAINFALL

• Most of Egypt is desert except for the coastline on the Nile
• Egypt gets fewer then 800 millimeters of rainfall per year
• Most of the rainfall comes in October
• Even the wettest area which is around Alexandria only receives about 200 millimeters of rain per year

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THE DESERT

• In the old days The Egyptian desert was called The Red Land
• This distinguished it from The Black Land
• These colors reflect that the desert sand has a reddish hue
• When the Nile flood waters go away the sand turns black

THE NILE RIVER

• The Nile river is 4132 miles long
• It is belived to be the longest river in the world
• In 2004 the White Mile Expidition traveled the whole length of the river
• This took them 4 months and 3 weeks to complete

HOW THE NILE AFFECTED THE EGYPTIANS

• The Nile delta is where the Nile flows out to and is very rich in agriculture
• Around 40 million people (half of Egypt's population) live in the Nile delta
• Egypt doesn't get very much rain so living by the river helps with crops

THE FLOOD

• The Nile river floods every year and both helps and hurts the Egyptian people
• It helps because the water brings fertile dirt with it to help crops
• It also hurts crops though because when it floods it can destroy the crops
• To combat this the Egyptians created the dam
• They used the dam to regulate the water flow

TRADING

• The Nile was also used for trading purposes
• Egyptians would take a boat and sail on the river to trade with other countries
• This was a lot faster and more efficient then walking through the desert
• This also got them the resources that they couldn't get where they lived faster
• The best thing about it was that everyone could trade even peasants

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