Question

i need help with an oceanography quest will give medal

Answer 1

Why do you think many of the world's large cities were founded near estuaries and deltas

Answer 2

I cannot expalin in detail but hope this site will really help you in your question .. :) so here it is ----> http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/Geography-Of-Estuaries.htm

Answer 3

this is easy as

Answer 4

okay so lets think about ancient times

Answer 5

before there was artificial crops and nutella people needed to farm and they needed wheat and crops and also fish

Answer 6

lets take egypt for example with the nile delta

Answer 7

when it flooded it deposited silt on the soil which made growing crops lucrative

Answer 8

now lets think of modern times

Answer 9

what possible reasons could we have that New York city - to use an american example - or the Gold Coast - to use my home town Australian city as an example - would be founded next to the ocean?

Answer 10

trade, fishing, leisure, sewage etc etc

Answer 11

@arabpride @leonardo0430

Answer 12

besically there are 9999 reasons why now and in the past humans always choose to live near the oceans / water ways

Answer 13

for drinking, because it brings prey there for us to hunt, because it is an abundance of fish, because crops need water, for washing and cleaning, etc etc

Answer 14

try imagining a life without the oceans.......it just wouldnt work