Student+Sample+Nigeria

= __Nig____eria__ =

media type="custom" key="12377384" __**Place-Human Characteristics**__
 * Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa. But many people are poor because of its high population.
 * Offical language is english.
 * 50% of Nigerians are Muslims and 40% are Christian. Often both religions combine their faiths with traditional beliefs.
 * the Yoruba people are famous in Nigeria for their wood carvings. Most ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Nigerian ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ art is sculptures. They inspire western artists.
 * ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Some areas in Nigeria have a lot of oil problems like pipe explosions so the wild life gets destroyed.
 * ‍‍‍‍‍Some Nigerians create haunting rhythms with kalangu drums and rattles. it sounds kind of like a mix between rock music and juju.
 * younger people dress in a western style and dance in night clubs.
 * nigerians believe in gods.
 * Their celebrations include masked dancers. Their most celebrated holiday is the Harvest Celebration.
 * If oil pipes in Nigeria leak and get into farmland, the crops can get poisoned.

__**Place-Physical Characteristics**__
 * Lots of droughts
 * Rain takes __away__ all the hills
 * Nigeria is on the __west__ coast
 * During droughts people have to dig in the sand hoping to find water
 * Climate is very dry
 * Part of Nigeria is in the Sahara __desert__
 * Capital is Abuja
 * Rivers in Nigeria or Niger, Kadura, and Benue
 * It is located at 10 degrees both north and east



__**‍‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Human Enviroment Interaction-Humans adapting to the environment **__
 * people wear rags or cloth on their heads to protect themselves from the hot sun.
 * people live near some kind of water source no matter how small to adapt to the environment.

__**Human Enviroment Interaction-Humans changing the environment**__
 * sometimes oil pipes will explode or light on fire and destroy some of the environment in sourounding areas.
 * when there is oil wars (fights over oil wells) on boats and sometimes the oil barrels explode and destroy the water source so they have to move somewhere else.

__**Human Enviroment Interaction-Environmental problems due to people changing the environment**__
 * oil polution kills fish so Nigerians can't eat them.
 * animals are losing their homes due to desertification so the nigerians can't sell them for __money__ to survive . ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍media type="custom" key="12312172"

**__Movement__**
 * To get around they use boats.
 * To get around towns they use mostly trains and also a lot of walking.

this is a picture of a boat a Nigerian might use to get across water

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__**Products**__
 * Nigeria has lots of products, such as oil, cocoa, peanuts, palm oil, cooking oil, yams, cassava, corn, petroleum, limestone, marble, and __tin__.
 * Nigeria is running low on tin because of over mining the metal.
 * Even though it has so many products, Nigeria is still very poor.
 * Nigeria is restricted to exporting only two products, like all of the other countrys in Africa.

**__Location__** media type="custom" key="12377400"
 * It is 10 degrees north latitude.
 * It is 10 degees east longitude.
 * Nigeria is in the northern and eastern hemispheres.
 * Nigeria is bordered by Benin, Niger, and Cameroon.