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The Bahamas Questions And AnswersWith Verified Solutions Latest Updated
2024 {GRADED A+}
the Bahamas - ANSWER✔✔Lies between 20° and 28° N, 72° and 80° W
natives - ANSWER✔✔Lucayan and Arawak peoples
Late 18th & early 19th century economy: - ANSWER✔✔agriculture, privateering,
wrecking
Boom during the U.S. Civil war: - ANSWER✔✔gun running
Boom during Prohibition: - ANSWER✔✔rum running
made of? - ANSWER✔✔carboante island
how many land masses? - ANSWER✔✔29 islands
how many keys (cays)? - ANSWER✔✔661
Topography is dominate by: - ANSWER✔✔eolianite (lithified dune) ridges
banks: - ANSWER✔✔two major plates
, Great Bahama Bank - ANSWER✔✔2 great troughs where one slips below the
other
tongue of the ocean - ANSWER✔✔2,000 meters deep
oceanic trench
Little Bahama Bank - ANSWER✔✔Separated from Great Bahama Bank by:
Northwest and Northeast Providence Channels
Northern region: - ANSWER✔✔subtropical temperate
southern region: - ANSWER✔✔semiarid- desert like
Historical accounts: - ANSWER✔✔mixed tropical broadleaf coppice including
mahogany
Today: - ANSWER✔✔pine barrens with palmetto, limited broadleaf coppice
Marine waters: - ANSWER✔✔18° C winter,
28° C summer
North equatorial current - ANSWER✔✔delivers water to the banks from the
southeast
Middle Jurassic: - ANSWER✔✔Underlying crust was a product of rifting of
Pangea and the opening of the North Atlantic basin
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