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Goh Cheng Leong Chapter 17: The Savanna or Sudan Climate

Certificate Physical & Human Geography Goh Cheng Leong

Chapter 17: The Savanna or Sudan Climate

Characteristics

  • Transition
  • Hot rainy & cold dry
  • Temp:
  • Extreme diurnal temp. – day 100 & night 50 - intense heating in day
  • Trade winds bring rain to coastal area – strong in summer and dry in continental interior (scattered tree and short grass)
  • Harmattan – Doctor

Vegetation

  • Tall grass – 6 to 12 ft. – elephant grass – long roots
  • Short trees
  • Parkland or bushveld
  • Deciduous - acacia
  • Water storing – baobab & bottle tree
  • Umbrella shaped
  • Palm along wet areas
  • Rain decreases – thorny scrub (Australia) - mallee, mulga, spinifex

Animals

  • Big game country
  • Skin, horn, tusk, bone, hair
  • Herbivores – alert & swift, speed, zebra, giraffe (long neck) , camouflaged
  • Carnivores – lion, tiger – powerful jaw & teeth – yellow brown body match surrounding
  • Reptiles & mammals – crocodile, alligator
  • National Parks (Kenya-viewing towers)

Tribes – Masai – E. Africa

  • Nomadic – Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda
  • From 50,000 to 15,000 after clashes & epidemics
  • Occupy less favored area of Savanna
  • Circular Huts
  • Cattles in enclosure at nights
  • Zebu cattle – Hump & long horn – symbol of wealth
  • Get vegetables from Kikiyu of Kenya – millet, banana

Tribes – Hausa – N. Nigeria

  • Settled cultivators in Bauchi plateau
  • 6 million people – settled agriculture
  • Towns and villages – groundnut, banana, cotton, tobacco – leave it fallow
  • Rotate crop in different fields
  • Domesticate animals – milk and meat, poultry
  • Seedling sprout in heavy rain, weeding with traditional hoes
  • Fire caused by Harmattan

Development in Savanna

  • Settlements in C. Africa, N. Australia & E. Brazil
  • Potential for plantation agriculture

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