Geography what town, once a fishing mecca, is now a desert with a cemetery of ships due to the shrinking aral sea

The correct answer is - Mo'ynoq/Muynak.

The town of Mo'ynoq, in the west usually spelled as Muynak, was once a developed town were fishing was the main source of income, but this western Uzbekistanian town has lost its glory over the past few decades, starting from the 1980's, and is now only a pale shadow of what it once was. This is due to the shrinking of the Aral Sea that lost most of its waters because of the bad irrigation policies during the USSR period, but also those policies continued after the independence of the Central Asian countries. So nowadays, instead of a landscape with big beautiful lake, there's a desert and small lake in the last stage before dying out.

since there isn't any suggested answers i will give you the reason and hopefully you can figure it

south africa, or rather all of africa, has not been in the location in which it is nowadays throughout the geological past. after the super-continent pangaea started to break apart, gondwanaland, in which was africa, moved further south, and parts of it came to be very close to the south pole. because the climate in this part of the world is very cold due to the very dispersed sun rays in there, what is now south africa, started to freeze, and the conditions were right for the formation of glaciers. the glaciers existed up until the period when gondwanaland started to break apart and what is now africa started to move towards north, sp it warmed up and the glaciers melted.