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What is the significance of desert features to human activities?

      

Discuss the significance of desert features to human activities.

  

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Maurice
(i) Shifting sand dunes hinder transport activities.

(ii) Desert scenery is ideal for film making.

(iii) The vast sand seas are ideal for military training and nuclear testing.

(iv) Desert features form good sites for tourist attraction, thereby earning foreign exchange.

(v) Oases are sources of water for domestic and agricultural use.

(vi) Wind deposited sands form fertile plains for farming.

(vii) Salty flats are economically used for salt production.


maurice.mutuku answered the question on June 9, 2017 at 09:46


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