Geography 1 & 2: East Africa Physical and Human Geography

Geography 1: Physical Geography of East Africa

• Relief: Focuses on the physical landforms of East Africa.
• Rainfall and Weather: Examines patterns, types, and impacts of weather in East Africa.
• Drainage: Covers river systems, water bodies, and drainage patterns of East Africa.
• Weathering: Analyzes the processes that break down rock in East Africa.
• Soils: Explores the types, characteristics, and distribution of soils across East Africa.
• Vegetation: Details the plant life and its distribution.
• Afforestation: Covers the process of tree planting and its role.
• Mass wasting: Investigates events like landslides, mudslides, etc.
• Coastal geomorphology: Studies, coastlines and the formation of coastal features.
• River systems: Explores rivers, their tributaries, and their impact on the landscape.

Geography 2: Human and Economic Activities of East Africa

• Fish Farming: Details about fish farming in East Africa.
• Industrialization: Examines industrial growth and development in the region.
• Mining: Covers extraction of minerals and their significance to the region.
• Forest Destruction: Explores the causes and consequences of deforestation.
• Afforestation: Focuses on tree planting efforts and the reasons behind it.

Geography B: Agricultural and Economic Activities of East Africa

• Fishing: Discusses the fishing industry and its economic role.
• Tourism: Investigates the tourism sector.
• Agriculture: General and specific topics of agriculture in East Africa.
  • Settler cultivation: Looks at large-scale European style farming.
  • White settler farms: Details of farms owned by European settlers.
• Nomadic pastoralism: Describes the lifestyle of herders who move with their livestock.
• Dairy farming: Explores the dairy industry and its practices.
• Ranching: Focuses on animal husbandry practices for commercial purposes.
• Intensive/commercial farming: Covers agriculture focused on profit.
• Horticulture: Focuses on the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, flowers.
• Market gardening: Looks at small-scale farming for local markets.
• Plantation farming: Discusses large-scale farming of cash crops.
• Irrigation farming: Examines the use of irrigation in agriculture.
• Cooperative farming: Reviews farming undertaken by groups (co-ops) for shared purpose.