Essays Tagged: "Lake Victoria"

Kenya, the republic of eastern africa.

a and Athi. They both flow southeast to theIndian Ocean. The Nzoia, Yala, and Groi rivers flow into Lake Victoria.Other popular countries are Uganda, Somalia, Tanzania, Ethiopia,Tanganyika.The Kenya H ... ya Highlands are bisected from north to south by a Rift Valleywhich extends across the country from Lake Tuikana to the Tanzania border. Thisvalley cuts through Eastern Africa from the Red Sea into Ma ...

(5 pages) 101 0 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Notes on Freshwater Biology

Freshwater such as lakes and rivers have determined the location of habitation through out history. Witness all the gre ... ober citizen who would never submit his watch or his motor to amateur tamperings freely submits his lakes to drainage, fillings, dredgings, pollutions, stabilisations, mosquito control, algae control, ... Cycle.Water moves around the planet. It occurs in varying forms solid (ice), liquid (seas, rivers, lakes) and gaseous (Water vapour in the atmosphere).The water vapour falls to the ground as rain or ...

(6 pages) 57 0 4.2 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Egypt- The Nile River

, is the longest river in the world, and is located in northeastern Africa. Its principal source is Lake Victoria, in east central Africa. The Nile flows north through Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt to the ...

(2 pages) 33 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

"Is America Number One?"

Tanzania has lots of useful resources. Hydro power is one of Tanzania's largest sources of energy. Lake Victoria, the largest, fresh water, body of water on Africa is one of Tanzania's resources. The ...

(3 pages) 54 3 3.9 Jan/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

The Nile River.

e longest river in the world stretching over 4,184 miles (Parsons 2001). It has two sources, one at Lake Victoria, the White Nile, and the second in Ethiopia at Lake Tana, the Blue Nile (Parsons 2001) ... pt, spans some 8,500 square miles and in its coastal regions holds vast areas of lagoons, wetlands, lakes, and sand dunes (Parsons 2001). The Delta is a region rich in nutrients. Ancient Egyptians cal ...

(12 pages) 46 0 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Facts About Kenya

.8º C (about 82º F) in February, March, and April; the highlands are relatively mild; the Lake Victoria region is more tropical. The rainy seasons occur from October to December and April to ... . The Physical characteristics consist of mountains, the highest being Mt. Kilimanjaro, rivers, and Lakes. Lake Victoria is a beautiful lake on the borders of 3 countries. Some of the Human Characteri ...

(4 pages) 4256 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Transition to Adulthood --> Rites of Passage and ritual Cross Culturally

rent cultural conditions.The Masaai are an African ethnic group located in Kenya around the area of Lake Victoria to Mount Kilimanjaro. They have encompassed a firm system of social patriarchy in whic ...

(7 pages) 57 0 4.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

Tanzania..

g its income gained from natural resources. A classic example of this is issue of the Nile Perch of Lake Victoria, being exported to European countries for a much lower price than it is sold over ther ... was about 336,200 tones, more than three quarters of which was caught in inland waters, especially Lake Victoria.Civil Unrest:Crime levels are low and Tanzania's record on human rights is good.Coloni ...

(3 pages) 8 0 0.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers

Case-in-Point Analysis - Species Richness in Lake Victoria

se-In-Point Analysis - � PAGE �5� Case-In-Point Analysis - SPECIES RICHNESS IN LAKE VICTORIAJamila LewisUniversity of PhoenixSCI362 - Environmental EthicsFacilitator: Steven Golds ... ntal EthicsFacilitator: Steven GoldsmithAugust 16, 2010Case-In-Point Analysis - SPECIES RICHNESS IN LAKE VICTORIALake Victoria, the world's second-largest freshwater lake in East Africa has an abnorma ...

(3 pages) 18 0 0.0 Sep/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Kenyan Independence fight against British Imperialism

ategic purposes�. If they controlled Kenya, they can control the source of the White Nile in Lake Victoria. Once the land was secured by the British more white settlers came in search of making ...

(11 pages) 5 0 0.0 Dec/2012

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History