Define the word
Define: Adapt
Correct Answer: To change or adjust.
What word matches the definition: Active or awake at night or taking place during the night.
Correct Answer: Nocturnal 🦇
Where is the Sahara desert located?
Correct Answer: Northern Africa
Which desert's aborigines did people drink the water from frogs bellies in?
Correct Answer: The Australian desert's aborigines
True or False: Antarctica is a desert.
Correct Answer: True ;)
Define: Habitat
Correct Answer: The environment in which a plant or animal normally lives.
What word matches this definition: Moisture in the form of rain, snow, hail, or sleet.
Correct Answer: Precipitation
Emus are found in which desert?
Correct Answer: The Australian Desert
The Joshua Tree is found in which desert?
Correct Answer: The Mojave Desert
True or False: Hedgehogs are nocturnal.
Correct Answer: True
Define: Marsupial
Correct Answer: A type of mammal that carries its young in a pouch that is part of its abdomen.🦘
What word matches the definition: The growth or expansion of deserts due to human activities.
Correct Answer: Desertification
Where is the 'Devil's Highway' and is it 200 miles long?
Correct Answer: Yes, it is in the Sonoran Desert.
Where is the Patagonian desert located?
Correct Answer: Southern Argentina
What is one feature about the Arabian Peninsula?
Correct Answers: Called Rub' al Khali, Bedouin tribes use camels to travel, Date Palms-good foods for sweetness. 🐪
Define: Semi-Arid
Correct Answer: Receiving 10-12 inches of annual precipitation and supporting only short grass.
What word matches the definition: A native person who originally settled and lived in an area.
Correct Answer: Aborigine
Which desert is the lowest, hottest, and driest place in the United States?
Correct Answer: The Mojave Desert
What was the San people's way of storing water during a drought?
Correct Answer: They used ostrich eggs to hold water. An ostrich egg can hold as much liquid as 2 dozen chicken eggs.
Describe the 'Singing Map'.
Correct Answer: The aborigines of Australia believed the myth of the singing map. The singing map was a myth that everything was created in dream time, a time before time. The Earth was created by ancestral beings who sang out the name of each thing as they saw it.
Define: Basalt
Correct Answer: A dark or black rock that looks like glass; basalt is formed when volcanic rock cools.
What word matches the definition: A crack in Earth's outer crust along which movement takes place.
Correct Answer: Fault Line
The Saguaro Cactus is only found in which desert?
Correct Answer: The Sonoran Desert
Which desert's White Sands National Monument is used as a testing range for bombs and missiles.
Correct Answer: The Chihuahuan Desert
How is basalt formed?
Correct answer: Basalt is formed when volcanic rock cools.