What is a Desert
Its called a desert for this reason
What is arid?/dry
What is an polar?
The process by which a liquid changes to a vapor or gas
What is evaporation?
This river runs through the Sahara
What is the Nile?
This is the name for the interior mostly desert part of Australia
What is the Outback?
The Gobi Desert is famous for this
What are having so many fossils?
What is oil?
Things hot and cold deserts have in common
What is dramatic temperature change between day and night?
The name for when water is falling to Earth's surface as rain, hail, snow or sleet
What is precipitation?
This is a scientist who studies weather patterns over time
What is a climatologist?
This desert is known for its extensive salt mines and camel caravans
What is the Sahara?
A kangaroo is considered to be this
What is a marsupial?
The Gobi Desert covers most of
What is most of Mongolia and part of China?
The Mojave Desert is located here
What is the United States?
This plant is well adapted to living in the desert
What is a cactus?
This is an area of land where evaporation has left a layer of salt
What is a salt flat?
The natural or human process that turns fertile land into a desert
What is desertification?
This desert has a game reserve with a variety of plants and wild animals
What is the Kalahari Desert?
These people passed down history and tradition doing this
What are songlines?
The Gobi Desert is surrounded mostly by this
What are mountains?
This desert is located between 2 fault lines, has the lowest elevations, and has the highest recorded temperature in the United States
What is Death Valley?
What is nocturnal?
The landform of a piece of land
What is a terrain?
A plant with point leaves, a long stem, and white flowers that grows in the Mojave Desert
What is a yucca?
The Sans people store water in these
What are ostrich eggs?
The myth passed down for generations was called this with the Aboriginal people
What is dreamtime?
The northernmost end of the Arabian Peninsula connect these two continents
What are Africa and Asia?
This desert extends from Mexico into Texas and New Mexico
What is the Chihuahuan Desert?
This is what we call a behavior a plant or animal changes to its surrounding environment.
What is adapted?
Small short brushes or trees
What are scrub brushes?
These locations have little precipitation but with enough moisture to support the growth of grasses, shrubs, and a few scattered trees
What is semiarid?
The Aboriginal peoples have survived in Australia because of this
What is adapting to their environment?
The Gobi desert is located on this continent
What is Asia?
This desert is considered the driest on the earth
What is the Atacama Desert?
The Devil's highway is located in this desert
What is the Sonoran Desert?