Chapter+1+Questions

1. Tunisia is located in northern Africa and is bordered by Libya, Algeria and the Mediterranean Sea. There are mountains in the north and ther is also a hot, central plain, about 40% of Tunisia is occupied by the Sahara desert, the rest of Tunisia is occupied by fertile soil.

2. The official language is Arabic and French is also a major language spoken in commerce. To see a picture of the flag go to []

3. Tunisia is a LCD country, it is a less urbanized country, it has a high percentage of no school.

4. Tunisia's economic growth averaged about 5% in the last 10 years, but in 2009 the growth rate had decreased to 0.3% because of slowed import demand in Europe. In order for the economy to become sustainable for the growing population of university graduates and for a large number of unemployed. The economic growth will have to increase in order to provide jobs for these people.

5. In 2006 Tunisia's ecological footprint footprint of production less than the boicapacity, it was 9.9 million gha. These means that in 2006 Tunisia extracted less from its ecosystems, allowing the ecosystems time to renew thier resources. In 2006 the ecological footprint per capita was 1.9 gha, lower than the global average, but higher than the average available biocapacity, this shows that the consumption of Tunisia in 2006 was not sustainable.

6.A Tunisian family drinks tea in traditional Tunisian clothing.