North American Deserts
The highest temperature in the United States (134o F) was recorded here.
What is Death Valley or the Mojave Desert?
An area consisting mostly of tableland in the southern part of Argentina, bordered by the Andes Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Patagonia?
The Gobi covers this area. (Two country names)
What is most of Mongolia and part of Northern China?
Many camel caravans cross the sand dunes here in search of an oasis.
What is the Sahara?
These are considered polar deserts (two answers).
What are the Arctic and Antarctic regions?
The ladder-backed woodpecker, the screech owl, and the sparrow hawk all make their home in the yucca found only in this desert.
What is the Mojave Desert?
Most climatologists consider this desert the driest place on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
Many dinosaur bones have been uncovered here.
What is the Gobi Desert?
The San have a steady supply of water here, due to their innovative use of ostrich eggs.
What is the Kalahari Desert?
The dry land here supports animals, such as the kangaroo and the emu, which are not found anywhere else.
What is the Outback?
Many settlers and gold hunters traveled to the Devil's Highway here; some did not make it to their destination.
What is the Sonoran Desert?
NASA used the unique terrain here to test fact-finding equipment that could be sent to Mars.
What is the Atacama Desert?
The largest sand desert in the world is found here.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
Some of the animals that live here include the antelope. the gazelle, mountain sheep, and the small fennec fox.
What is the Sahara?
Songlines were used here by Aboriginal peoples to map the land.
What is The Outback?
The U.S. military uses White Sands National Monument in this desert to test bombs and missiles.
What is the Chihuahuan Desert?
Ferdinand Magellan stopped on the shores of this area during an expedition to sail around the world and named the area after the native people.
What is Patagonia?
The Gobi is surrounded by these land formations.
What are mountains?
Almost completely surrounded by mountains, this land is covered in rock and gravel, and receives very little rain.
What is the Gobi?
"Hot" and "cold" deserts have these two things in common.
What is very little precipitation OR evaporation outpaces precipitation and dramatic changes in temperature between day and night?
This desert sits on a high plateau in Mexico and stretches into New Mexico and Texas in the United States.
What is the Chihuahuan Desert?
Patagonia is in this country.
What is Argentina?
Many of the countries in this region are rich due to the discovery of oil.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
The area of this basin in the central part of southern Africa is almost as large as the state of Texas.
What is the Kalahari Desert?
Winter temperatures in these two areas can drop to below -60o.
What are the Arctic and Antarctic regions?