Trey Huneycutt Fall '25 World Geography Blog

     Lab 7 North Africa-SW Asia This week we focused on North Africa and Southwest Asia.  These two regions are combined into the same module since both have more in common in the sense of geography and religion than North Africa has with much of the rest of the continent.  This area was where the first ancient civilizations were built including the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and Babylonians.  It is also the birthplace of three of the world's largest religions including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.  We discussed the harsh and arid landscape and the need for these civilizations to build around water sources.  The Persians were able to develop quants, or underground tunnels used to extract groundwater from below mountains and transport it downhill where it could be used as irrigation.  We learned that much of the world's oil supply comes from this region with Saudi Arabia being the largest exporter in the world.  We discussed how 2000-...

  Lab 6 Sub-Saharan Africa This week we learned about Sub-Saharan Africa. Africa is the second largest continent after Asia and the only continent crossed by both the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The Sahara stretches across most of Northen Africa and creates a barrier between the Muslim and Arab North Africa and the traditional African cultures to the South.  Africa was the center of the supercontinent Pangea. Still today, the movement of tectonic plates is changing the geography of Africa.  The Great Rift Valley is slowly splitting away at a rate of about 1/4 inch per year.  We discussed the Nile River and its basin. How it is regarded as the longest river in the world and has been key to transportation in the area.  Its floodplain allows for farming in a very arid area. Sub-Saharan Africa also includes the Congo and its basin.  The Congo is Africa's largest river by discharge and the deepest river in the world.  This area is a biodiversity h...

  Lab_ 5 Middle and South America This week in Geography1000 we discussed Middle and South America.  This area normally consists of the Isthmus of Panama, the Caribbean, and South America.  In this case, because Mexico shares so much culturally with this are it is included in Middle America.  Tectonic collisions have helped shape the landscape of Middle America with impressive mountain ranges including the Siera Madre Occidental, Oriental, and del Sur.  These plates also create earthquakes and volcanos in the Caribbean.  South America's Andes Mountains stretch from Venezuela to Chile and along with other ranges include altitudinal zones which allows for cultivation on numerous types of crops and livestock.  The rest of South America is fairly flat and includes the continent's longest river, the Amazon.  This river is the largest in the world in terms of discharge, equating to about 210,000 cubic meters of water every second.  Middle and ...