Desert Life
This animal is able to go long periods of time without drinking water.
What is a camel?
Deserts will get this amount of precipitation or less on average in a year.
What is 10 inches?
This is the largest and hottest desert on Earth.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Wildlife and humans do this to become adjusted to new conditions.
What is adapt?
These types of deserts are the coldest on earth.
What are polar deserts?
Animals that only come out at night are said to be this.
What is nocturnal?
Deserts further away from this are not as hot.
What is the equator?
This desert is the largest desert in the United States and is also a Cold Winter desert.
What is the Great Basin desert?
This is when natural or human process turn fertile land into a desert.
What is desertification?
These types of deserts have hot summers and cold winters.
What are cold winter deserts?
What is underground?
The hottest temperature ever is said to have been recorded in this part of the Mojave desert.
What is Death Valley?
This desert is the oldest in the world and is also a Cool Coastal desert.
What is the Namib desert?
People use this process to supply water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels
What is irrigation?
These types of deserts are the hottest deserts on earth.
What are subtropical deserts?
This animal is able to recycle the water in its body to stay alive.
What is the kangaroo rat?
Desert skies don't have a lot of these.
What are clouds?
This desert is the 2nd largest desert in the world.
What is the arctic desert?
This process changes liquid (precipitation) into vapor or gas
What is evaporation?
These types of deserts are found on the coast and are the next hottest deserts
What are cool coastal deserts?
Cactus plants have these to help them absorb water and store it for later use.
What are thick stems/roots near the surface?
These desert landforms can be found in the Colorado Plateau desert near the city of Pueblo.
What are sand dunes?
This desert is the largest desert in the world.
What is the antarctic desert?
People that move around in search of food and do not settle in one place are said to be this.
The Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia is an example of this type of desert.
What are cold winter deserts?