# Question Answer

1. How long is the River Nile? 6650km

Clue: What number was on the front door to your house
2-12 Name the eleven countries the Nile passes through. “The DC” (Detective Constable
Congo) Democratic Republic of
What were the names of the people outside standing with you? Congo
Tanya (Tanzania)
Bob (Burundi)
Rowena (Rwanda)
Kate (Kenya)
2x Erics (Ethiopia, Eritrea)
Shrunken Sue (Sudan, South Sudan)
Igor (Egypt)
Uganda (You)
13 What is the suspended sediment load distribution? (Suspended sediment load – 30%
You entered a code on the keypad to gain entry into your house. clay, 40% silt, 30% fine sand)
14 What is the annual average sediment yield? 4000kg/hectare/yr (hectare 100m x
You’re struggling to move because there’s so much sediment, 100m)
mud, sand. You look up and you see the number 4000
emblazoned on the ceiling.
15- How many main distributaries are there in the Nile Delta and 2
16 where do they begin? 160km in land at Cairo
There’s a chain between your taps with the number 160.
17 What is the depth of alluvial deposits in the Cairo region? 9.6m
You take off your sandy and muddy shoes and wash them in
your kitchen sink. The sink gets clogged up with sediment. You
turn off the taps and measure the murky water.
18- What direction do the winds come from in the Nile delta area NW/N
19 and for what percent of the time?
You need a bit of fresh air after all that so you pop outside. The 55-60%
DC is having a chat with the others (name them). This time you
notice a warm breeze coming from the NW. You look again at
the number on your door and The DC has outrageously changed
the number from 6650 to 55-60.
20 What percent of time do winds come from the north east? 8%
Shrunken Sue, despite her size, is waving a placard with the
number 8 on it.
21 What direction does water and sediment move in across the East
Nile delta region?
The winds are so strong they’ve pushed you eastwards
22 What is the surface velocity in the summer? Sunglasses 11cm/s
23 What is the surface velocity in the autumn? Apples 5cm/s
24 What is the surface velocity in the winter? Wellies 23cm/s
25 What is the surface velocity in the spring? Springs 8cm/s
26 What is the name of the headland to the west of the delta? Alexandria
Just then you hear someone saying hello to you. Hello? Hello?
Her name is Alexandria and she’s trying to get your attention.
27 What is the headland made out of? Limestone / carbonates
She’s quite big, fat and hard this lady, and her head has been
chopped off and replaced with a lime.
28 What is the name of the bay just to the east of Alexandria and Abu Quir bay
29 how wide is the bay? 63km wide
Alexandria has a husband. His name is Abu, he’s 63 and a very
wide man.
30 What is the name of the promontory and what are its Rosetta
31 characteristics? Elderly parent called Rose. She’s 100 and keeps Fragile
32 falling over, she is incredibly fragile. Erosion rate is 100m/yr
33 What coastal management strategy is in place here? Groynes – 9 rubble mound groynes
34 Rose is a bit weird, and she wants to show you a groin. She lifts
35 up her dress to reveal 9 hard bumps. Then she takes her shoes Sea wall 5km long
36 off and shows them to you.
37 What is the name of the bar and lagoon to the east? Burullus bar and lagoon
You can’t take any more of Rose’s weirdness and you decide you
need a drink. You go back into your kitchen, which has now
turned into a Spanish bar called Burullus
38 How long is the bar? 65km
One of the signs up in the bar says Happy Hour from 6 to 5
39 How wide is the narrow channel in the bar by the village? 50m
40 What is the name of the village?
You notice your worktops, and a significant gap (50cm) in one of El Burge
them with my Spanish counterpart, El Burge, standing in
between.
41 What is the name of the beach to the east which acts as a Gamasa
natural defence against erosion?
You spot a few gamers in the corners of your new bar in your
kitchen who are playing some sort of karate game. They keep
saying sa, sa, sa!
42 How many main distributaries were there and what is the 7 to 2.
number now?
Used to be 7 windows here shining light through the bedrooms.
Now reduced to 2
43 What are the names of the two promontories? Rosetta and Damietta
44 For how many thousands of years have they extended 4000 years
45 northwards into the Med sea?
46 What is the dominant processes at these promontories? Erosion
You notice tiny little monsters gnawing away at Rose and
Damietta. They are being eroded away, erosion is now
dominant.
47 What is the name of the dam and when was it built? Aswan dam, 1964
48 “Dam” you say 1964 times (Aswan dam built 1964 now
responsible for some of the erosion at the promontories).
49 What is the depth of alluvium deposits at Aswan? You’ve now 4m
grown to 4m high to represent the depth of alluvial deposits at
Aswan (4m).
50 Add your own Overall rate of erosion can be as high
as 148m/yr
Rising sea levels in the
Mediterranean of 1.2mm per year
have also contributed to higher
erosion rates as deeper water
produces larger waves with higher
amounts of energy